The Popular Magazine, August 20, 1925

This August 1925 issue of *Popular Magazine* contains eight fiction pieces spanning adventure, mystery, western, and detective genres. The lead story, William Morton Ferguson's book-length novel "Deep Water," follows three young men drawn from New York City to the South Seas by a mysterious encounter. The protagonist meets a woman seeking a letter left in an Ovid volume at the public library; investigation reveals the book was previously checked out by Simon Greenlees, now deceased from an elevator shaft accident. Other featured stories include Robert McBlair's "McCluskey" about a police officer proving his mettle; Holman Day's "The Hawk of Holeb," concerning aviation; C.S. Montanye's "Down But Not Out," blending eastern and western themes humorously; Edgar Wallace's serialized detective mystery "The Squealer" (Part II); Jack O'Donnell's "The Man That Ruined Zeno," involving track racing; H.R. Marshall's "Flaming Canon," a supernatural western; and Robert H. Rohde's science-themed "Seventeen Vertical."