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The Blue Book Magazine, April 1921
The Blue Book Magazine, April 1921 (Vol. XXXII, No. 6) This issue features a mix of serials and standalone stories across diverse genres. The lead serial *The Crosscut* by Courtney Ryley Cooper presents a mystery-romance set in Colorado's mining country, following Robert Fairchild's investigation into his father's mysterious past. The novelette *Three Miles at Sea* by Frank Condon delivers comic adventure with racing action and romance. Maxwell Smith's *Frozen Dope* offers Canadian wilderness drama, while George F. Worts contributes *The Lou-How-Chow*, first of a Siamese fiction series. Other stories include Paul Fitzgerald's horse-racing tale *Shooting Star*, Frederick Tierney's post-war boxing story *The Battle Cry*, and Marshall Scull's African adventure *Five Lions*. The concurrent serial *Wind Along the Waste* by Gladys E. Johnson concludes a California desert mystery. Additional contributors include H. Bedford-Jones, Robert J. Casey, and Leonard D. Hollister, covering underworld, swamp, stock-exchange, and postal-inspector subjects.