Adventure Magazine, April 10, 1924

This April 10, 1924 Adventure magazine contains one complete novel and two novelettes, with authors including Harold Lamb, Frank Robertson, James K. Waterman, Arthur O. Friel, William Byron Mowery, and others. The featured complete novel "The Making of the Morning Star," by Harold Lamb, chronicles Crusade-era history: during an early-thirteenth-century truce between Crusaders and Saracens, Sir Robert of Antioch—a knight known as "Longsword" for his four-foot blade and recently ransomed from Mameluke captivity—rides alone through the Orontes Valley. He encounters Abdullah ibn Khar, a Muslim minstrel claiming companionship but whom Robert suspects of espionage. The narrative develops themes of knight errantry, religious conflict, and personal honor. Novelettes include "The White Man's Way" by Georges Surdez (set in Africa, involving a raid) and "Swain's Justice" by Arthur O. Howden Smith (set in the Orkney Islands, concerning Viking law). Additional short stories address sheep-shearing in the West and whale-hunting in the South Atlantic.