The Blue Book Magazine, April 1922

# The Blue Book Magazine, April 1922

This issue features fourteen fiction pieces across multiple genres. Roy Norton contributes "To the Lights," a maritime story depicting elderly Captain Joshua Fairley of Brixham, who faces financial hardship after failed motorization experiments on his trawler, the I'll Try, and resolves to return to traditional sail. The novelette "Lanky Bob" by E. E. Harriman centers on Western adventure.

Additional short stories include David Gray's "Understanding," a comedic chronicle set during Prohibition; William F. Sturm's "The Drivin' Fool," about cross-continent automobile racing; Charles Alexander's "The Place of Hisses," concerning animal migration in Olympic Mountain wilderness; Clarence Herbert New's "Free Lances in Diplomacy," featuring submarine intrigue; and Meigs O. Frost's "The Daughter of Nez Coupé," set in Louisiana swampland.

The serialized novel "The Hand of Esau" by J. Frank Davis is advertised as a mystery of high quality. Contributors include George Allan England, Warren H. Miller, Jonathan Brooks, Lemuel L. De Bra, George L. Knapp, and Bertram Atkey.