Argosy All-Story Weekly, May 17, 1924

About this issue

This May 17, 1924 issue of Argosy-All Story Weekly contains five serialized stories and multiple shorter fiction pieces. The lead serialized story, "Tarrapin Toes" by E.K. Means (author of "Tickfall Tales"), begins its five-part run. Other continuing serials include "Dirty Work" by Rufus King (four-part), "Sundown Café" by Kenneth Perkins (six-part, part two), "The Roaring Forties" by Arthur Hunt Chute (six-part, concluding installment), and "A Stranger in Town" by J.U. Giesy and Junius B. Smith (final part of four-part story). Short fiction features L. Patrick Greene's "The Sentimental Bloke," George F. Worts's contribution, George K. End's "Something Smaller than God," Earl Wayland Bowman's "The Elusive Mule," Leighton Osmun's "The Eye of the Camera," and W.T. Whitehead's "The Pirate Who Came Up." The issue announces Frank L. Packard's upcoming serial "The Locked Book," a piracy tale set in the Malay Islands, beginning the following week.

In this issue

• “Hit th' Sunshine” by Clem Yore · poem · p.182
• “The Sentimental Bloke” by L. Patrick Greene · p.183
• “The Real Life” by Percy W. Reynolds · poem · p.209
• “The Frontier” by Sonia Ruthele Novak-Clary · poem · p.227
• “Contrast” by A. Shaw · poem · p.236
• “Hesperides” by Harry Kemp · poem · p.251
• “The Elusive Mule” by Earl Wayland Bowman · p.252
• “Sundown Cafe” by Kenneth Perkins · serial · p.257
• “The Rural Bard” by Ella Bentley Arthur · poem · p.260
• “The Roaring Forties” by Arthur Hunt Chute · serial · p.261
• “Bertilloned” by Margaret G. Hays · poem · p.276
• “The Eye of the Camera” by Leighton Osmun · p.277
• “A Stranger in Town” by J.U. Giesy and Junius B. Smith · serial · p.286
• “Wealth” by Theda Kenyon · poem · p.298
• “Pear” by Frederick S. Foltz · poem · p.310
• “The Pirate Who Grew Up” by W.T. Whitehead · p.311
• “The Web of Black” by Betty A. Beall · poem · p.320
• “Tampertown Toes” · serial
• “Larty-Work” by G.S.A · serial
• “Something Smaller than God” by George F. Worts