The Blue Book Magazine, October 1923

The Blue Book Magazine Table of Contents (September 1923 issue) Two novelettes headline this issue. "The Trail to Bitter Gulch" by William O. Reynolds offers a story of the modern West, while H. Bedford-Jones's "Brome's Luck" chronicles swift-action adventures on the Indo-China coast. Thirteen short stories follow, ranging across genres. Culpeper Zandtt contributes "Deep Water Men," the first of a Pacific-based sailor-of-fortune series. Austin Hall offers "Rex Takes Them Out," a mountain story featuring a sheep-dog. Agatha Christie provides a Hercule Poirot detective story, "Mrs. Opalsen's Pearls." Other stories include Elmer Brown Mason's golf tale "Where Violets Grew," Wm. Ashley Anderson's African jungle narrative "Fatima and the Germanees," and Clarence Herbert New's "Free Lances in Diplomacy," involving an international scheme against a Russo-Japanese-German coalition. Additional contributors include George L. Knapp, Frank Parker Stockbridge, Harold H. Armstrong, Warren H. Miller, Meigs O. Frost, Lawrence H. Conrad, and Joe Mills. A serial by Courtney Ryley Cooper, "The Last Frontier," features Buffalo Bill and General Custer in the Old West narrative.