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Adventure Magazine, October 3, 1919

· October 3, 1919

Adventure Magazine, October 3, 1919
Adventure Magazine, October 3, 1919 This issue of *Adventure*, a pulp adventure periodical published fortnightly by The Ridgway Company, contains seven major fiction works across 192 pages. Featured content includes "The Sea Lawyer" by E.S. Pladwell, a complete novelette about lawyer Roger M. Childs, knocked unconscious and shanghaied aboard a ship; Robert J. Pearsall's "The Eight Vultures of Kwang-Ho," concerning investigators Hazard and Partridge pursuing a mysterious plague in a Chinese village; and the third installment of William Patterson White's serialized "Lynch Lawyers," a western featuring Red Kane and Dot Larimer confronting hired gunmen. Gordon Young contributes "Changed," set in the South Seas; S.B.H. Hurst's "The Brightest Jewel of Them All" explores initiation into an Indian criminal society; Hapsburg Liebe offers "Godfather to Satan's Kitchen"; and Hugh Pendexter concludes "Red Belts." Additional stories include Farnham Bishop's "While Rivers Run" and the complete novelette "Smooth Prizes" by Kathrene and Robert Pinkerton, featuring Arctic explorer Curtis Baird. The issue includes departments on firearms, fishing, and reader correspondence.

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