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# Adventure Magazine, January 30, 1924

This issue of Adventure features frontier and exotic adventure fiction. The lead story is Harold Lamb's complete novel "The Witch of Aleppo," set among Don Cossacks in 1613, following a war party ordered from their winter camp at the Siech; the camp is demoralized, lacking their imprisoned chief Rurik (captured by Turks and ransomed for ten thousand gold sequins) and their priest (recently killed by Turkish patrol). Additional fiction includes William Harper Dean's "The Challenge" (cattle country South), Charles Victor Fischer's "Flatboat Strategy" (Mindanao sailors' feud), John Eyton's "The Gap in the Fence" (India, child and panther), Conroy Kroder's "The Salute" (Manila), Clement Ripley's "The Mash" (Soviet Russia), Sidney Herschel Small's "More Than Half a King" (Japan, fighting priest), and Thomson Burris's "Don't Swat a Flyer" (oil-field aviation). Also included: "The Long Knives" serial installment, historical and nature articles, and reader service sections.