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Detective Story Magazine, June 9, 1923

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About this issue

This issue of Detective Story Magazine (June 9, 1923) contains four serials and several short stories. The featured serial is "On His Thirtieth Birthday" by Oscar Schisgall, beginning its first of three installments. The narrative opens in a church where elderly organist Amos Hobart plays alone nightly, valued by his parish. The issue advertises that next week brings "The Avenging Twins Try It Again" by Johnston McCulley. Other serials include "Brethren of the Shadows" by John Hunter (part two), "The Gray Phantom's Madness" by Herman Landon (part three), and "The Empty House" by John Laurence (part four). Short stories feature Christopher B. Booth's "Mr. Clackworthy Pays His Income Tax," Edward Leonard's "Ali Baba," Donald Van Riper's "Just for Luck," Edgeworth Downer's "Great Escapes," and Ernest M. Poate's "Spirit Justice." The issue also includes extensive classified advertising for correspondence courses in fingerprint detection and detective work.

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