The Adventure, War, and Espionage Fiction Magazine Index

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Popular Fiction Magazine [Vol. II No. 5, January 1932] ed. Samuel Bierman (Metropolitan Publishers, Inc., 10¢, standard pulp, cover by Eric Lundgren) Details taken from Table of Contents. 2 · What Does Your Handwriting Indicate? · I. L. Paddock · cl 4 · Rebellion [Sgt. Lancey] · L. Patrick Greene · nv The 20-Story Magazine January 1932 34 · Make Way for the Texas · Charles A. Wells · ss 41 · The Visiting Hero · William Wert Morgan · ss 49 · The Four Green Dragons · Cyril Plunkett · ss 68 · Leathernecks · Capt. Walt R. Bethel · nv 90 · Gray Magic · Lew York · ss 93 · Hammer and Gongs · Samuel Taylor · ss 101 · Fog · Frank J. Leahy · ss 112 · Adventures of a Special Agent · Anthony Wayne · ar 115 · Fifty Grand · Marvin Williams · ss

Popular Fiction Magazine [v2 #6, February 1932] (Metropolitan Publishers Inc., 10¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by B. Eric Lundgren) Details supplied by Mike Ward. 2 · What Does Your Handwriting Indicate? · I. L. Paddock · cl 4 · The Ocean Bastille · H. Bedford-Jones · nv 28 · Master in Sail · Jacland Marmur · ss 39 · Singin’ Sam · Cyril Plunkett · ss 43 · The Better Man · Bob du Soe · ss 58 · The Island of Life · J. B. Ryan · n. 97 · Bombs for the General · Horace McCoy · ss 112 · The “Plant” · Earl C. Parker · ss 115 · White Heat · G. H. Vace · ss

Popular Fiction Magazine [v3 #1, March 1932] ed. Samuel Bierman (Metropolitan Publishers Inc., 10¢, 128pp+, pulp, cover by Eric Lundgren) Details supplied by John Locke. 2 · What Does Your Handwriting Indicate? · I. L. Paddock · cl 4 · Before Grenada’s Walls · Samuel Carson · nv 49 · The Blood Curse · Samuel Taylor · ss 57 · The Haunted Race Track · Horace Wade · ss 65 · Thrilling Adventures · Samuel G. Corwin · ts 70 · Machiavelli—Salesman · Henry S. Whitehead · ss 87 · King of Idaho · Ernest H. Barbour · ss 96 · Our Readers Say · The Readers · lc 97 · Murder in the Desert · William J. Makin · ar 101 · Steel Sharks · Ralph R. Fleming · ss 112 · The Fool Fetish · Hugh B. Cave · ss 127 · Not for a Million Dollars · John G. Pearsol · pm

Popular Fiction Magazine [v3 #2, April 1932] ed. Samuel Bierman (Metropolitan Publishers Inc., 10¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by B. Eric Lundgren) Details supplied by Richard Kahl. 2 · What Does Your Handwriting Indicate? · I. L. Paddock · cl 4 · Nutmeg · Lee Willenborg · nv 36 · Here They Built a Bridge · William Chamberlain · ss 45 · The Right Cross Up · Worthen C. Cornish · ss 54 · One Greater Need · Anthony M. Rud · nv 76 · Bad Water Men · Charles Pitt · ss 89 · Runner of the Scarlet Trail · Archie Joscelyn · ss 96 · A Foul There Was · Samuel Taylor · nv 119 · Ju-Ju · Ernest H. Barbour · ar 124 · Song of the Underworld · Earl C. Parker · ss

Popular Fiction Magazine [v3 #3, June 1932] ed. Samuel Bierman (Metropolitan Publishers Inc., 15¢, 128pp+, pulp, cover by Eric Lundgren) Details supplied by John Locke. 2 · What Does Your Handwriting Indicate? · I. L. Paddock · cl 4 · The Grey Parrot · Basil Carey · nv 37 · Fool for Luck · George Frederic Nieberg · ss 49 · But Earth Dare · L. Patrick Greene · ss The 20-Story Magazine August 1931, as by J. Symes Major 63 · “Ain’t That Like a Woman?” · Harold Willard Gleason · pm 64 · Freedom Ahoy! [Nial Tyrone of Carlow] · H. Bedford-Jones · ss 84 · The Roses of “Rosy” O’Grady · Paul Pressler · ss 93 · Their Greatest Act · Frank J. Schindler · vi 97 · Swamp Shadow · F. N. Litten · ss 109 · Dope Smuggling · Anthony Wayne · ar 113 · The Cosbitt Mystery · Arthur H. Styron · ss 125 · Taking It Over · The Editor · cl

Popular Fiction Magazine [v3 #4, August 1932] ed. Samuel Bierman (Metropolitan Publishers Inc., 15¢, 128pp+, pulp, cover by Eric Lundgren) Details supplied by John Locke. 2 · Kingsbane · J. B. Ryan · nv 41 · The Izzat of Metab Kahn · Warren Hastings Miller · ss 57 · The Ta Ching Diamond · Anthony M. Rud · ss 76 · Masterless Men [Nial Tyrone of Carlow] · H. Bedford-Jones · nv 99 · Anchored Island · William Wert Morgan · ss 115 · Dawn · Capt. J. Winchcombe-Taylor · ss

Popular Fiction Magazine [Vol. III No. 5, September 1932] ed. Samuel Bierman (Metropolitan Publishers, Inc., 15¢, standard pulp, cover by Eric Lundgren) Details taken from Table of Contents. 3 · Spell of the Desert · Edgar Daniel Kramer · pm 4 · A Sword for Tyrone [Nial Tyrone of Carlow] · H. Bedford-Jones · nv 24 · One Strike—Very General · James W. Bennett · ss 27 · Fink the Finder · Ernest M. Poate · ss 41 · Forever Accursed · Sewell Peaslee Wright · ss 56 · The Chamber of Skulls · Roy W. Hinds · na 92 · All Wet · George F. Nieberg · ss 103 · The Dynamite Felucca · Warren Hastings Miller · ss 115 · The Last of Satan’s Legion · Archie Joscelyn · ss

Masters of Adventure   (about)

Masters of Adventure [Number 1, 2010] ed. G. W. Thomas & M. D. Jackson (Dark Worlds Club) · Ms. Found in a Bottle · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Baltimore Saturday Visitor October 19 1833 · Smith and the Pharaohs · H. Rider Haggard · na The Strand Magazine December 1912 (+2) · The Brazilian Cat · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine December 1898, as “The Story of the Brazilian Cat” · The Grove of Ashtaroth · John Buchan · nv Blackwood’s Magazine June 1910 · Tarzan Rescues the Moon [Tarzan] · Edgar Rice Burroughs · ss The Blue Book Magazine August 1917 · A Thousand Deaths · Jack London · ss The Black Cat May 1899 · A Tropical Horror · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Grand Magazine June 1905 · Breath of Allah [Abu Tabah; Kernaby] · Sax Rohmer · nv The Premier Magazine February 1918 · The People of the Pit · Abraham Merritt · nv All-Story Weekly January 5 1918; original version. · Wings in the Night [Solomon Kane] · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales July 1932

The Master Thriller Series   (about) A series of anthologies in magazine format; each issue featured a different genre. For convenience, all issues have been indexed even though only a small number are mystery/detective. Publishers: The World’s Work (1913) Ltd.; Kingswood, Surrey: The Master Thriller Series.

The Master Thriller Series [#1, Tales of the Foreign Legion (July 1933)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) · Soldiers of France · [uncredited] · ms; brief piece about the foreign legion. · Gentlemen of the Legion · J. D. Newsom · nv Frontier Stories July 1927 · The Quest · P. C. Wren · ss Stepsons of France by P. C. Wren, Murray, 1917 · The Dead Fight Hard · Bob du Soe · ss Short Stories May 25 1929 · Strength of the Legion · [uncredited] · ms · His Own People · J. D. Newsom · nv The Frontier November 1926 · Send No Flowers · Georges Surdez · ss Short Stories October 25 1929 · Kismet in Picardy · Don McGrew · ss Short Stories December 10 1928 · Six Feet Under · Robert Carse · ss Short Stories December 10 1929

The Master Thriller Series [#2, Tales of the North-West Mounted Police (September 1933)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) · A Free Rein · William Byron Mowery · nv Short Stories July 10 1925 · Prestige of the Scarlet · Harwood Steele · ss Short Stories January 10 1927 · The Galloping Hours · William Byron Mowery · ss Short Stories November 10 1925 · Blind Man’s Bluff · Walter W. Liggett · ss The Frontier August 1925 · On Patrol · James B. Hendryx · ss Short Stories February 10 1925 · The Last Potlatch · J. Allan Dunn · ss Short Stories January 25 1924 · Men Who Pay in Blood · T. Von Ziekursch · ss Short Stories October 25 1924 · Misadventure · Robert Ray · ss

The Master Thriller Series [#3, Tales of the Seven Seas (December 1933)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Miller. 6 · The Pearl Raiders · R. de S. Horn · na Short Stories November 25 1925 9 · Sea Thirst · C. Wiles Hallock · pm Short Stories June 10 1931 60 · Mutiny at Five Bells · [uncredited] · ms (r) 61 · Yellow Piracy · E. Keble Chatterton · ss 67 · Discontent · Edgar Daniel Kramer · pm Short Stories June 25 1932 68 · The Pirate Hunter · Capt. Frederick Moore · ss Short Stories July 10 1927 85 · Revise Your Maps! · [uncredited] · ms (r) 86 · Weeds · Ralph R. Perry · ss Short Stories October 25 1926 105 · Singing Johnny · Edgar Daniel Kramer · pm Short Stories June 25 1931 106 · Twenty Fathoms Under · T. T. Flynn · ss Short Stories April 25 1927 116 · Terrors of the Deep · [uncredited] · ms (r) 117 · The Skipper Knows Best · Murray Leinster · ss Short Stories December 10 1928 126 · A Veteran Sealer · [uncredited] · ms (r) · The Editor’s Log · The Editor · ed (r)

The Master Thriller Series [#4, Tales of Mystery and Detection (March 1934)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) · The Image in the Mirror [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Hangman’s Holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1933 · The Kidnapped Prime Minister [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · nv The Sketch April 25 1923 · Out of Paradise [A.J. Raffles] · E. W. Hornung · ss Collier’s Weekly December 10 1904 · An Ethical Dilemma [Major Forester] · E. Phillips Oppenheim · ss The London Magazine June 1928 · The Case of Oscar Brodski [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine December 1910 · The Cat Burglar [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv Flynn’s Weekly November 6 1926 · The Cliff Path Ghost [Supt. Henry Wilson] · G. D. H. & Margaret I. Cole · ss A Lesson in Crime by G. D. H. & Margaret Cole, Collins, 1933 · The Sexton’s Wife · Margery Allingham · ss · The Blue Cross [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 23 1910, as “Valentin Follows a Curious Trail”

The Master Thriller Series [#5, Tales of the Foreign Legion #2 (June 1934)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Miller. 4 · Stepsons of France · [uncredited] · ms 6 · The Ambush at Soueida · Ex-Legionnaire Francis A. Waterhouse · nv 40 · Sermons in Stones [Foreign Legion: John Bull] · P. C. Wren · ss Stepsons of France by P. C. Wren, Murray, 1917 46 · The River Pirates of Indo-China · Ex-Legionnaire Reginald R. Forbes · nv 68 · My Moroccan Baptism · Ex-Legionnaire 1384 & W. J. Blackledge · ss 78 · Fighting the Berbers · Prince Aage of Denmark · ex from My Life in the Foreign Legion, Eveleigh Nash, 1928 110 · Strictly Private · J. D. Newsom · ss Short Stories September 10 1930

The Master Thriller Series [#6, Tales of the Uncanny (September 1934)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp, cover by Youngman Conors) 3 · The Willows · Algernon Blackwood · na The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1907 32 · The Inexperienced Ghost · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine March 1902, as “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost” 40 · Honolulu · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Everybody’s October 1921 54 · The Wind in the Portico [The Runagates Club] · John Buchan · nv Pall Mall Magazine March 1928 68 · A Pair of Hands · Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · ss The Cornish Magazine December 1898, as by Q 76 · Mrs. Lunt · Hugh Walpole · ss The Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1926 85 · The Smell in the Library [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · nv The Sketch December 25 1922, as “Red Antony” 97 · Old Man’s Beard · H. Russell Wakefield · ss Old Man’s Beard by H. Russell Wakefield, Bles, 1929 108 · Mine · Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes · ss The Royal Magazine February 1924 119 · Rooum · Oliver Onions · ss The Fortnightly Review December 1910

The Master Thriller Series [#7, Tales of African Adventure (December 1934)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Holland. · Thorns and Iron · Victor Rousseau · nv Frontier Stories September 1927 · Ivory [Keynes] · H. Bedford-Jones · nv Short Stories March 10 1930 · Cannibal Teeth · William Doughty · ss Short Stories April 25 1930 · Treasure of the Pharaohs · Charles Saxby & H. A. Noureddin Addis · nv Short Stories August 25 1930 · Dust · J. D. Newsom · nv Frontier Stories January 1927 · Lion Hunting in the Liuwa · J. P. Kay Robinson · ss

The Master Thriller Series [#8, Tales of the Orient (March 1935)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Miller. 7 · The Road of Adventure · Albert Richard Wetjen · ss Short Stories October 10 1924 27 · The Malay Kris · Frederick Moore · ss Short Stories April 10 1925 44 · Three Gates Pagoda · H. Bedford-Jones · nv Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine November 1925 74 · Smoke of Dreams · Elmer Brown Mason · ss Short Stories January 25 1926 83 · The Ghost of Intelligence · S. B. H. Hurst · ss Short Stories August 25 1925 93 · Once Beyond Khyber · Jack Smalley · ss Short Stories March 10 1927 106 · Empire’s Edge · Nels Leroy Jorgensen · nv Frontier Stories July 1927

The Master Thriller Series [#9, Tales of the Jungle (July 1935)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Miller. 4 · By Rule of Drum [Aubrey St. John Major] · L. Patrick Greene · nv Short Stories September 10 1934 31 · The Smartest Elephant · Edward T. Turner · ss Short Stories September 25 1934 42 · Whole Hog or None · Edmond Du Perrier · ss Short Stories March 25 1935 52 · Thirteen Heads · Herman Petersen · ss Short Stories February 25 1935 71 · Voodoo Moon · Edward T. Turner · ss Short Stories October 25 1934 81 · Borneo Diamonds · Frank J. Leahy · ss Short Stories November 25 1934 92 · “Well, I’ll Be—” · Douglas Leach · ss Short Stories February 25 1935 101 · Siamese Twinge · Douglas Leach · ss Short Stories December 10 1934 113 · Jungle Loot · Carl N. Taylor · ss Short Stories March 10 1935