The Illustrated Blue Book Magazine, January 1927

This January 1927 issue of *The Blue Book Magazine* contains two serials and eight short stories. The featured serial *The Blue Satan* by George Gibbs is a detective novel set in Pennsylvania; *The Great Samarkand* by Roy Norton is a mystery concluding in Egypt. Short fiction includes *The Bar E Bar Bandit* by Allan Hawkwood, a New Mexico cattle-range adventure; George L. Knapp's *The Nester*, depicting Colorado conflict between ranchers and farmers; and Lemuel De Bra's *The Silent Race*, set in Chinatown. Other stories span Western settings (*Senonaqua and the Lion* by Bigelow Neal, *Scandalous Bill's Rodeo* by Bud La Mar), merchant marine adventure (*The Ward of the Ship* by Stephen Hopkins Orcutt to South America), diplomatic intrigue (*Free Lances in Diplomacy: The Attack from Moscow* by Clarence Herbert New), baseball (*The Cold Shoulder* by Herbert L. McNary), and humorous tales (*The New Idea Cigar* by Calvin Ball). H. Bedford-Jones contributes *The Trail of Death*, and L.P. Holmes offers *Le Jeune of the Ax*, a North Woods lumber story. Five reader-submitted true-experience narratives complete the issue.