The Blue Book Magazine, January 1925

# Blue Book Magazine, January 1925

This issue contains two serials and twelve short stories. J.S. Fletcher contributes The Cartwright Gardens Mystery, a detective novel described as exemplifying fine detective-story writing. The concluding chapters of Edwin L. Sabin's White Indian, set in the Rocky Mountain West, appear in this issue. Among the short stories: Raymond Leslie Goldman's Kid Weber Does His Best concerns a prizefighter in crisis; Frank Parker Stockbridge's The Light in the East features the Buried Alive Club in an exciting adventure; Michael J. Phillips provides Western drama in Gun Play; Bertram Atkey contributes another exploit of his recurring characters in Easy Street Experts. Forrestine C. Hooker contributes Lobo's Return, told from a wolf's perspective. Additional stories include Warren Elliot Carleton's In the Path of the Liners about North Atlantic swordfishing; Willis Brindley's humorous Montana tale The Strike at Too Dry; Clarence Herbert New's diplomatic drama Free Lances in Diplomacy; Warren Hastings Miller's Flood, set in Sumatra; Agatha Christie's The Missing Will, featuring Hercule Poirot; and others. Forbes Parkhill's Meshes of Mystery novelette depicts conflicts between detectives and criminal bands.