Everybody's Magazine, February 1927

Everybody's Magazine, February 1927 This issue of Everybody's presents adventure serials and short fiction alongside commercial advertising. The featured serial "Black Sheep's Gold" by Beatrice Grimshaw opens with a narration by a young Englishman—formerly destined for country gentry, now a trading store operator in Papua. His life shifted after his father's sudden death in 1914; he served in World War I and subsequently migrated through Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Australia before settling in Papua's wild west. Aboard the liner Catacara traveling to Thursday Island, he observes the tropical Pacific landscape with romantic nostalgia. The narrative begins with shrieks from female passengers on deck, interrupting his contentment. Also featured are Captain Dingle's serial "Flying Kestrel," depicting shipboard mutiny, and Selwyn Jepson's "The Diamond Makers" (concluding installment). Novelettes include "War Along Big Creek" about a ranch feud and Eugene P. Lyle Jr.'s "Men Like Beasts," concerning an airship wrecked in South American wilderness. Short stories cover aviation ("Metal Props"), Australian bush adventures ("Snake Bite"), African desert murder ("Letters in the Sand"), and various other action scenarios.