The Illustrated Blue Book Magazine, December 1927

# The Blue Book Magazine, December 1927

This December 1927 issue contains two major serials alongside twelve short stories. Edgar Rice Burroughs's "Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle" presents adventure in primordial Africa, while Robert Ames Bennet's "The Box L Mystery" combines detective and cowboy narratives. Western stories dominate the short fiction, including William MacLeod Raine's "The Sheriff Functions," Lemuel De Bra's "Parson Pat's Predicament," and Calvin Ball's "The Inside Job," featuring a cowboy displaced in New York. H. Bedford-Jones contributes "Ten Years After," a Paris-set detective story during an American Legion convention. Other offerings include Agatha Christie's "The Enemy Strikes," featuring Detective Poirot against a crime syndicate, and Clarence Herbert New's "On Location," an engineering exploit complicated by film enterprise complications. The issue rounds out with a novelette, "Held for Release" by Joseph Blethen, set on San Francisco's Barbary Coast, and five prize-winning real-experience narratives covering topics ranging from Sahara aircraft rescue to prizefighting comeback stories.