The Blue Book Magazine, January 1926

Blue Book Magazine, January 1926

This issue contains five nonfiction "Real Experience" accounts and fourteen short stories spanning adventure, mystery, business, and Western genres. The experience narratives include "The Elusive S.O.S." by Alexander Snyder (radio operator recounting a peculiar shipwreck), Don Dickerman's account of capturing a giant devilfish during the William Beebe Galapagos expedition, Wilbur Cooper's business story "A Rule of Trade," Wallace A. Hemants's detective mystery "The Clue of the Cloth," and H.V. Meng's airplane crash narrative "Down to Earth."

Featured fiction includes Roy Norton's Western story "The Loner" and Warren Hastings Miller's Malay tale "The Coming of Siti." Additional stories feature Hiram Inkweller (newspaper proprietor), an old-time boxer mascot tale, African lion hunting, Indo-China engineering adventure, Chinese characters in Arizona, and a comet-disaster novelette by George L. Knapp titled "The Black Star."