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About this issue

This issue of Top-Notch Magazine, a twice-monthly pulp publication from Street & Smith, contains diverse fiction spanning contemporary and adventure genres. The featured complete novel, "The Coast Guard Riddle" by John Milton Edwards, depicts drama among men facing maritime perils. Ralph Boston's novelette "With the Seven Million" follows an unemployed woman confronting difficult circumstances. Shorter stories include C. S. Montanye's baseball narrative "When the Game's on the Hook," Arthur Hornblow Jr.'s "One More Stunt" about film stunt work, Freeman Harrison's Coney Island story "Get 'Em Hot!", Russell A. Boggs's "Mixed Doubles" involving a railroad operator in a tennis conflict, and others exploring business schemes and adventure. The ongoing serial "The Big Town's Secret" by Ethel and James Dorrance continues its fifth part with Central Park intrigue. A special article by Henry Wilton Thomas, titled "The World's Shop Window," appears alongside verse and prose contributions.