The Blue Book Magazine, April 1920

The Blue Book Magazine, April 1920 This issue features the opening installment of "Cross Currents," a novel serialized with chapters by John Law Dallam and Frank H. Collins, which follows Richard Mohun's aspirational trajectory from rural Illinois farmer stock to New York financial ambition. The narrative traces Mohun's education at the University of Chicago, his banking apprenticeship on La Salle Street, and his arrival in Manhattan via ferry to pursue an opportunity at the prestigious firm Ambrose and Company—where he meets the influential millionaire Henry M. Ambrose and learns of Ambrose's widowed status and two daughters. Additional fiction includes adventure serials and standalone stories: George Worts contributes a sea-voyage novelette; Edison Marshall concludes "The Voice of the Pack" (set in Northwestern forests); Achmed Abdullah offers "The Incubus" (African expedition); H. Bedford-Jones provides "The Ironmaster of Chian Fu" (Oriental drama); and tales by George Allan England, Chester T. Crowell, Henry Leverage, and others addressing sports, crime, comedy, and supernatural themes.