The Blue Book Magazine, June 1924

BLUE BOOK MAGAZINE, JUNE 1924 This issue contains thirteen short stories and one serial, spanning adventure, mystery, western, business, and exotic-locale fiction. "100,000 Dollars" by Frank Parker Stockbridge opens the issue with a tale of a bank employee named Edward Levering whose moral integrity becomes ambiguous during a specific weekend in August. "The Barren Islands" by H. Bedford-Jones features the protagonist from "Madagascar Gold" in seafaring adventures. Additional shorts include Agatha Christie's "The Hunter's Lodge Case" starring detective Hercule Poirot; "Barratry" by Albert Richard Wetjen; "A Sentimental Business" by William Ashley Anderson; and "Easy Come, Easy Go" by Edwin L. Sabin, a cowboy story. Serialized is J.S. Fletcher's mystery novel "The Gallowstree Mystery." Western and business-themed tales, Chinatown stories, and diplomatic fiction round out the issue.