Argosy All-Story Weekly, April 19, 1924

About this issue

This issue contains five continuing serials. Arthur Hunt Chute's "The Roaring Forties" continues in Part One of a six-part story; "A Crown for Sale" (from the Memoirs of the Queen of Florania) appears in Part Two of a five-part story; David Fox's "The Handwriting on the Wall" is Part Four of a six-part serial; Theodore Goodridge Roberts's "Floods" continues as Part Three of a four-part story; and Laurie York Erskine's "The Confidence Man" concludes in Part Six of a six-part serial. The issue includes novelettes and short stories by Leslie Ramon, Ruth Robinson Blodgett, Wilson Collison, Herman Howard Matteson, and others, alongside verse contributions. A forthcoming serial by J. U. Giesy and Junius B. Smith titled "A Stranger in Town"—about a man hit and jailed, then demanding a lawyer—is advertised as beginning the following week.

In this issue

• “The Roaring Forties” by Arthur Hunt Chute · serial
• “A Crown for Sale” · serial
• “The Handwriting on the Wall” by David Fox · serial
• “Flood” by Theodore Goodridge Roberts · serial
• “The Confidence Man” by Laurie York Erskine · serial
• “Colossus of the Radio” by Leslie Ramon
• “Rinda” by Ruth Robinson Blodgett
• “The Decoys” by John Swain
• “Gentle Gender” by Wilson Collison
• “The Elk Bone Spear” by Herman Howard Matteson
• “The Stolen Necklace” by D. Walton
• “Stolen Shoes” by Florence M. Pettee
• “A Stranger in Town” by J. U. Giesy and Junius B. Smith · serial