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Man Stories [v2 #2, July 1931] (Metropolitan Publishers, Inc., 20¢, pulp, cover by George R. Taylor)
Details supplied by John Locke from Table of Contents.

4 · Gentlemen of Misfortune · J. Allan Dunn · nv

47 · A Superiority Complex · Bertram W. Williams · ss

57 · The Golden Lotus · Cyril Plunkett · ss

68 · The Terror Bandits · George Uhl, Jr. · ss

85 · Yellow · L. Patrick Greene · ss The 20-Story Magazine December 1929

97 · The Siamese Twins · Jack Hulick · ss

107 · He-Man Stunts · David V. Rush · cl

110 · A Matter of Honor · Horace McCoy · ss

Popular Fiction Magazine
Title changed from Man Stories.

Popular Fiction Magazine [v2 #3, November 1931] (10¢, 128pp, pulp, cover by B. Eric Lundgren)
Details taken from eBay listing.

· The Flaming Skull · Hugh B. Cave · nv

· Island Vultures · Jacland Marmur · ss

· Jungle Fate · L. Patrick Greene · ss

· The Suite in Soho · Cyril Plunkett · ss

· Fo ’c ’s ’le · Frank J. Leahy · ss

· The Boast of Mat Drus · Murray Leinster · ss

· The White Oleander · Arthur H. Styron · ss

· What Does Your Handwriting Indicate? · I. L. Paddock · cl

Popular Fiction Magazine [v2 #4, December 1931] (Metropolitan Publishers, Inc., 10¢, pulp, cover by Eric Lundgren)
Details supplied by Richard Fidczuk.

2 · What Does Your Handwriting Indicate? · I. L. Paddock · cl

4 · Hijacked · Capt. G. R. Madden · nv

30 · The Green Jade God · Allan Taylor · ss

43 · The Collapse of Private Diggins · Seth Clarkson · ss

53 · The Black Barque · Cyril Plunkett · ss

68 · Young Courage · Rupert Knowles · nv

89 · The Killer and the Prince · Lee Willenborg · ss

96 · Makoo’s Magic · Byron Beach · ss

109 · Texas Bred · Hugh B. Cave · ss

123 · Fishing for Tiger · W. Sherwell · ar

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 · nv 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

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