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The Blue Book Magazine, September 1925
· September 1925

This September 1925 issue of *Blue Book Magazine* contains five "True Experience" stories: "Buried at Sea" by Ralph Daubeny (South Seas adventure), "When Lucre Larruped Liberty" by Robert Derr (soldier of fortune in Mexico), "Skull and Bones" by James F. Stone (ghost story from the Adirondacks), "The Grudge" by Eugene Adams (prize-fight fraud), and "Selling Razors to the Sheiks" by Thomas P. Schneider (American business in Kurdistan). Sixteen short stories follow, including Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mystery "The Clapham Cook," Western tales, sports fiction, and adventure stories. H. Bedford-Jones contributes the novelette "The Frontier Below," set in London's underworld. The issue also features extensive advertisements for self-improvement correspondence courses in salesmanship and public speaking.
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