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The Blue Book Magazine, April 1926
April 1926 Issue Contents This issue of The Blue Book Magazine features a short novel and fourteen short stories across multiple genres. "The Comeback" by Joe Mills is a wilderness drama. The lead story, "Clancy, Detective," by H. Bedford-Jones, introduces a mystery series about an American detective operating in Paris. Additional fiction includes "Double-Gaited" by Jonathan Brooks about horse racing; "McKeever's Dinosaur" by George L. Knapp, a humorous tale of a domestic dinosaur; "The Crooked Trail" by Edwin L. Sabin; and "Free Lances in Diplomacy" by Clarence Herbert New, depicting an aerial attack on London. "The Gun Girl" by Rathburne Case explores strange events in Ohio; "The Joke" by Jay Lucas features cowboys and a grizzly bear; and "Flat Feet" by Bert Mohrman concerns a reformed gunman. Additional stories cover jungle adventure, lumber-camp life, mining romance, mechanics, and bank robbery schemes. The issue also includes five prize stories based on real experience, featuring narratives of Alaskan murder, whaling voyages, and railway mysteries.