Detective Story Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 1

Detective Story Magazine, January 5, 1917 This issue contains two serialized detective narratives and shorter fiction pieces spanning romance, crime, and mystery. Carolyn Wells's serial "His Hand and Seal" follows Isabel Curwood, a wealthy twenty-one-year-old living in New York, as she prepares to receive her inheritance from guardian Mr. Weatherby. Isabel is engaged to Edwin Stuart, an apparently penniless man rumored to gamble, despite disapproval from her mother and suspicion from Stuart's own behavior. The narrative involves complications with a Russian count and Isabel's determined independence regarding her financial affairs. The issue also includes H. Irving Hancock's "Li Shoon's Nine Lives" novelette and stories by authors including Gregory Hay, Wilder Anthony, and others, alongside miscellaneous articles on crime investigation and police procedures.