The Popular Magazine, November 1928

This issue of Popular Magazine presents two serials and eight short stories. Fred MacIsaac's "The Isle of the Fates" (four-part serial, Part I begins at page 86) concerns a young man who purchases a South Sea island. Clay Perry's "Show Man" is a complete novel about bringing rodeo and romance to town. The short stories include William Hemmingway's "The Order of Full Moon," depicting a strange police-barracks experience; Talbert and Winsor Josselyn's "Dry Water," pitting a pirate realtor against a mild-mannered storekeeper; Will McMorrow's "Distinguished Conduct," featuring a British drill sergeant; Mark Reed's "The Bad-Health Farm," starring middleweight champion Dugan; Ernest Douglas's "The Double-Crossing Leg," set in Mexico; W.B.M. Ferguson's two-part mystery "The Imperfect Crime" about identical-looking men; and Fitzhugh Green's "Heroes—And How!" about two sailors.