The Illustrated Blue Book Magazine, March 1928

The Blue Book Magazine, March 1928 This March 1928 issue of *The Blue Book Magazine*, edited by Edwin Balmer, contains two serial installments: Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle," described as approaching its "liveliest episodes," and Harold Titus's "The Tough Nut," set in a North Woods lumber town. The short story selection includes "The End of the Bar-Box-D" by Jay Lucas (western fiction), "The Trail of Rapture" by Frank Shaw (maritime adventure), "Picture Stuff" by Raoul F. Whitfield (aviation), "The White Elephant" by Bud La Mar (rodeo story), "Undercurrents" by Culpeper Zandtt (American physician in the Orient), "A Plunge in the Seine" by H. Bedford-Jones (Paris police action), "Free Lances in Diplomacy" by Clarence Herbert New (European espionage), and "The Old Leader" by Bigelow Neal (featuring a Hereford bull). "Crystals of Crime" by Lemuel De Bra is a novelette about federal narcotics agents. The issue also features five reader-submitted true experience stories on various adventures and wartime experiences.