The Popular Magazine, August 20, 1925

This August 1925 issue of Popular Magazine contains eight fiction pieces spanning adventure, mystery, western, and detective genres. The lead story, William Morton Ferguson's book-length novel "Deep Water," follows three young men drawn from New York City to the South Seas by a mysterious encounter. The protagonist meets a woman seeking a letter left in an Ovid volume at the public library; investigation reveals the book was previously checked out by Simon Greenlees, now deceased from an elevator shaft accident. Other featured stories include Robert McBlair's "McCluskey" about a police officer proving his mettle; Holman Day's "The Hawk of Holeb," concerning aviation; C.S. Montanye's "Down But Not Out," blending eastern and western themes humorously; Edgar Wallace's serialized detective mystery "The Squealer" (Part II); Jack O'Donnell's "The Man That Ruined Zeno," involving track racing; H.R. Marshall's "Flaming Canon," a supernatural western; and Robert H. Rohde's science-themed "Seventeen Vertical."