Argosy All-Story Weekly, December 29, 1928

About this issue

This issue features multiple crime and detective stories across several serials. "The Phantom in the Rainbow" by Slater LaMaster begins a six-part serial about Edmond Fletcher, a broker's clerk drawn into an elaborate mystery involving a mysterious ship rendezvous off Sandy Hook and a carefully hidden transfer of cargo. The opening also showcases reporter Bill Skyles witnessing the covert operation. The complete novelette "Secret Agents" by Mansfield Scott presents Under Cover Lane, a new detective protagonist who operates within criminal underworlds to combat crime from within. Charles Somerville contributes "The Man with the Devil's Eye," part of an "Invisible Web" series involving French Secret Police. Erle Stanley Gardner contributes "The Crooked Lightning," featuring detective Camera-Eye Bill Sheridan. "The Wedding Day Thief" concerns a confidence scheme involving a diamond swindle. Additional stories credited to Joseph Harrington, Seven Anderton, Edward Parrish Ware, and other mystery writers round out the issue, with "The Three Crows" by John Hunter announced as a beginning serial for January 5th.