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Adventure Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 3
Adventure, May 1919 This issue of *Adventure* magazine contains seven complete stories and serials across multiple genres. Egerton Castle contributes "The Four Invisibles," a historical novelette set in eighteenth-century France and England involving mysterious intrigue at an English manor. E. S. Pladwell's "Highly Civilized" presents a New England schoolteacher's disappointment with the American West. S. B. H. Hurst's "The Age-Old Puzzle" concerns secret prisons and advanced communication technology in India. Jack Beddolt's "Honest Men" follows conflict aboard the Puget Queen steamship during a storm. Gordon Young's "The Good Loser Wins" chronicles a female heir's unconventional search for a man in 1850s California. Talbot Mundy begins a six-part serial, "On the Trail of Tippoo Tib," about African elephant-hunting treasure seekers pursued by international spies. Additional offerings include Clyde B. Hough's "The Fingers of Home," featuring prospectors in the Philippines, and W. C. Tuttle's "Dirty Work for Doughboy," about ranch hands addressing a schoolteacher shortage in a frontier town.