Blue Book Magazine, June 1934

This June 1934 issue of Blue Book Magazine features adventure and mystery fiction alongside nonfiction. The lead serial is "The Trouble with My Double" by Horatio Winslow, a comic novel about a bewildered young man and his troublesome doppelganger. A second serial, "Murder Island" by Leland Jamieson, unfolds as a suspenseful mystery. Novelettes include Samuel Andrew Wood's "The Frog of Moscow," about an American's adventures in Soviet Russia, and Guy Endore's "The Day of the Dragon." Short stories span genres: William Outerson's "Men Can Beat the Sea" depicts windjammer adventure off Cape Horn; Conrad Richter's "The Bells of Ichicalli" centers on an American explorer in a remote Mexican village; Harold Burr's "Hey, Rube!" offers sports fiction; James Perley Hughes's "The Radio Patrol" dramatizes metropolitan police operations; and Arthur K. Akers's "Keep Out of Banks" features detective work. The nonfiction "Prize Stories of Real Experience" section includes naturalist Walter Wilwerding's "A Naturalist's Sketchbook," describing the kongoni (Coke's Hartebeest) of East Africa and Wilwerding's encounter with a lion while setting bait near Mount Kilimanjaro.