The Illustrated Blue Book Magazine, April 1927

# The Blue Book Magazine, April 1927

This issue presents eight short stories and a serial. "Nobody's Yes Man" by Forbes Parkhill (140 pages) describes a bitter territorial dispute over water rights in the Colorado mountains. Roy Norton contributes "Honest Anse," set in a Yukon mining camp. Warren Hastings Miller's "How the Croix Is Won" follows a Foreign Legion campaign in the Sahara. Jonathan Brooks offers "Horse Tracks," a comic tale in which the character Perkins purchases a Florida lake and converts it into a racetrack.

H. Bedford-Jones presents "Particeps Criminis," featuring bootleggers and bandits. Charles H. Snow's "Thin Ice" concerns a dog named Canuck rescuing his master after breaking through ice with medicine. Stephen Hopkins Orcutt's "Devil's Cargo" involves dynamite and sabotage aboard a ship. Robert Van Dorn's "Tod Sara" depicts a famous gambler establishing operations in a Western mining camp.

Harold Mac Grath's serial "We All Live Through It" continues, described as a novel of youth. Bud La Mar contributes "Carnival Ballyhoo," drawing on rodeo experience. Agatha Christie offers "The Dartmoor Adventure," featuring detective Hercule Poirot. Additional stories include "Free Lances in Diplomacy" by Clarence Herbert New, "The Black Mustang" by Rollin Brown, and five prize stories of purported real experience.