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Saucy Stories, February 1921
· February 1921

Saucy Stories, February 1921
This issue of the pulp magazine *Saucy Stories* contains twenty-one brief stories and pieces. The featured novelette is "The Puzzle Girl" by C.S. Montanye, illustrated, which follows architect David Ferran's chance encounter at a Fifth Avenue tea-room with a mysterious dark-haired girl in gray who flees upon seeing a swarthy foreigner. Ferran retrieves her abandoned pigskin brief-case, which contains sheet music and a valuable blue-white diamond necklace addressed to Count Nicolas Tarasova at the Hotel Bennington. Other stories include "Those Enduring Young Charms" by Weare Holbrook, "The Trysting Place" by George Sinberg, and "Hell's Bells Millicent" by Harold Ward, illustrated. The issue also features verse like "In the Affirmative" by Leslie Nelson Jennings and brief humor pieces such as "The Armored Eye" by T.F. Mitchell. Contributors include Carl Glick, Eric A. Darling, and Richard Van Tuyl.
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