The Popular Magazine, December 1912

The Popular Magazine, December 15, 1912 This twice-monthly magazine issue contains diverse adventure and mystery fiction. Featured stories include *The Phantom Shotgun* by Stanley Closby Arthur, a complete novel about apparently unsolvable crimes aboard ship involving a mysterious weapon. B.M. Bower contributes *The Man Who Would Play the North Wind*, while *The Cat and the King* by Robert Welles Ritchie examines the surface tensions beneath Japan's annexation of Korea. Charles E. Van Loan offers *When Thieves Fall Off*, a humorous tale of oddly-named racehorses; William Slavens McNutt's *The Right Bait* concerns con artists in Alaska. Other contributions include George Bronson-Howard's serial featuring secret agent Yorke Norroy searching for jade plates, Emerson Hough's *Ebenezer* about a raccoon on the cow range, and works by Frank L. Packard, Raymond S. Spears, and others, variously set in the Philippines, mountains, and railroad frontier locales.