The Illustrated Blue Book Magazine

The Blue Book Magazine—October 1926 This issue features six short stories and serials. The cover story "Evil Treasure" by Lemuel De Bra follows adventure along the Southwestern border. Adventure fiction dominates: Bruce Gould's "Sky Scrapes" depicts aerial celebration gone awry; H. Bedford-Jones's "The Trail of Death" (first in a "West of Plymouth" mystery series) offers detection and suspense. David Baxter contributes "Lotor the Bandit," a tale of an American animal. Clarence Herbert New's "Free Lances in Diplomacy" depicts England during a general strike. Other stories include Paul F. Mackey's circumstantial-evidence mystery "The Break in the Chain," Calvin Ball's humorous automotive tale "The Thinker," and Stephen Hopkins Orcutt's merchant-marine story "The Cargo Boat." The serial "Go-getter Gary" by Robert Ames Bennet concerns an Eastern gunman invading the West. Additional pieces include H. Jefferson Reid's "Special Extra!" (murder and journalism), a baseball story by Paul Bruington, George Allan England's Western drama "At Plug 47," and a prospector tale by Joe Mills.