The Illustrated Blue Book Magazine, January 1928

This January 1928 Blue Book Magazine issue features a diverse mix of adventure, detective, and frontier fiction. The cover story is Austin Jewell's "The Alamo," a dramatic historical account of 183 men defending the Spanish mission against Santa Anna's 5,000 troops in 1836. H.C. Wire's "Rock of Ages" follows a seventy-year-old desert freighter named Tawny Jack who discovers his cached hay stolen and sets out in pursuit across the Mojave. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle" continues in serial form. Additional stories include Clarence Herbert New's "Free Lances in Diplomacy," H. Bedford-Jones' "La Belle Marquise," Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot tale "The Crag in the Dolomites," and Robert Ames Bennet's ongoing serial "The Box L Mystery." The issue also contains numerous short stories and true-experience narratives by various authors.