Adventure Magazine Cover, June 20, 1923

This issue of Adventure magazine (June 20, 1923) features several fiction pieces. "The Fool Killer" by Joel Townsley Rogers is a complete novel set in Hudson Valley that opens with escape bells from Sing Sing prison—a known murderer has broken free. The town marshal Nibbick Craven learns the escaped killer may be Nero Cram, a figure several townspeople fear. A mysterious bald man boards a ferry across the Hudson. Other content includes "The Pigeons of Wong Foo" by J. Allan Dunn (South Seas pearl pirates), "Black Danger" by Mary Shannon (Idaho horse-racing story), "The Rat-Trap" by Dale Collins (maritime ambush), "Foils of Fate" by Ruland V. E. Waltner (backwoods murder), "Hurricane Williams' Vengeance" by Gordon Young (Part III, Pacific raids), "The Flusher" by Anthony M. Rud (swamp-country novelette), and "Appearances" by F.R. Buck (border-sheriff novelette). Historical and practical articles round out the issue.