# Spy Novels, June 1935
This issue features five adventure serials centered on international espionage and diplomacy. "The Manila Menace" by James Perley Hughes concerns a Navy lieutenant evading assassination in the Philippines while protecting U.S. naval interests. "The Capitol Crime," a novel by Major George Fielding Eliot, depicts Gordon Renville organizing forces against sabotage threatening the Capitol itself. E. Hoffmann Price's "Satan's Mandate" follows an American secret agent in Damascus offering himself as bait to a fanatical brotherhood amid rioting crowds. Frederick C. Painton's "Ambassador of Death" centers on American operative Barney Trale establishing a new regime in the Balkans while facing execution threats. The issue also includes "Courier of Darkness," a true account by Vaughn Ellis of World War espionage and K-6, an American spy called "the Rat" by German intelligence, and "Grapevine of Espionage," a true story by Arch Whitehouse on spy craft and its dangers.
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