The Argosy, January 1907

About this issue

This issue features one complete novel and six ongoing serials plus twelve short stories. The novel is In the Depths of Disaster by Marvin Dana, describing a pursuit that becomes captivity. The serials include Stephen Brandish's When Suspicion Struck Hard, about a man pursuing the person he believes genuinely guilty of a crime of which he is a victim of circumstantial evidence; William Wallace Cook's The Eighth Wonder, concerning an attempt to exploit modern progress for private gain; and Albert Payson Terhune's The Scarlet Scarab, a Naples-set tale of an American who accidentally encounters romance and becomes entangled in danger. Additional serials are Down and Out by Lawrence G. Byrd, King or Counterfeit? by Bertram Lebhar, and That Little Locked Case by Cromwell Knox. The twelve short stories include works by Mary Imlay Taylor, Charles Carey, Edgar Franklin, and others, with titles such as A Double Deception and Burke Jenkins.