A complete issue · 192 pages · 1927
Munsey's Magazine, April 1927
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1927 — all 192 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 192 pages · 1927
This novelette depicts a transatlantic voyage aboard the Vandalia where John Murray, a mysterious, aloof young man bound for Shanghai, becomes the object of fascination for Sally Banning, a worldly and determined young woman. Despite Murray's deliberate social isolation—he eats alone, reads constantly, and avoids all interaction—Sally pursues him, intrigued by his apparent romantic background and previous encounters with him at San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel. When her father Mr. Banning, a railroad president, eventually introduces himself to Murray (discovering him reading "Practical Plumbing"), the narrative begins to resolve the young man's carefully maintained mystery and his reasons for maintaining distance from social contact.
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