Midnight Mystery Stories, January 13, 1923

Midnight Mystery Stories, Vol. 2, No. 21 (January 13) This issue features six mystery and crime stories. "Out of the Dark" by James Wilmer concerns Sailor Jack Danby, a merchant marine who rents a room on New York's Lower East Side and learns from his neighbor Mrs. Sage that the previous tenant—also a sailor—died under mysterious circumstances. "The Menace" by R. T. M. Scott involves Sir Oliver Haultain, a British investigator, who arrives to recover a sealed flask of deadly poison—a wartime chemical weapon effective through ether that can destroy all life across a hundred square miles—currently sought by dangerous anarchists. Additional stories include "Tricked" by Geo. B. Jenkins, "The Uses of Adversity" by Lyon Mearson, "Fate on the Train" by W. S., "The Beetle" by Carl Aylmer, "The Trenholme Temper Dies" by P. L. Atkinson, and "Crooked Lane" by Hamilton Craigie. The issue includes a reader's letter praising the magazine's literary quality and adventure content.