Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1928)

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MEET THESE GOOD PALS Here are some thrilling novels costing but seventy-five cents apiece, any one of which is guaranteed to give you the best of good reading of the sort you prefer. These stories of romance, mystery, adventure, detectives, and the Great West appear for the first time between book covers. They are not reprints of old novels. Powdered Proof A Detective Story By MADELEINE SHARPS BUCHANAN When little Nancy Barnes was found dead, beside the pool of the Dahlgren Country Club, suspicion was evenly apportioned among several of the club members, and a notorious robber. Who did it? The Girl from Shanty Creek A Western Story By EMART KINSBURN In spite of the efforts of a desperate gang to follow him and learn the secret of his gold, Sim Fannan always succeeded in giving them the slip. And when his secret was in real danger Kathleen Dancy helped him out. Petals of Cathay An Adventure Story By JOSEPH MONTAGUE A strange mission, the search of a priceless talisman, led "King" Keeler into the wilds of Tibet. Through the mysterious channels of the forbidden Orient he slipped, at enormous peril to himself. The Outlaw Tamer A Western Story By DAVID MANNING A lot of men called "Sandy" Sweyn a halfwit— because he was different from themselves. But follow the adventures of this lad who had such an uncanny gift of understanding animals, and see for yourself! ir. Clackworthy, Con Man A Detective Story By CHRISTOPHER B. BOOTH A droll pair indeed, are this Mr. Clackworthy and his roughneck henchman, James Early, alias "The Early Bird !" Their exploits are masterly revelations of the bunko game as played by experts. Alias the Thunderbolt A Detective Story By JOHNSTON McCULLEY John Flatchley, with the aid of Saggs, an underworld waif, bewilders the police in an effort to recover a large sum of stolen money from his uncle's former partners and restore it to the rightful owners. 75 Cents a Volume Wolf Country An Adventure Story By STANLEY SHAW In the remote northern wilderness of Ungava Peninsula, the lives of Neal Trevana, his wife Alice, and the mysterious wolfer, Jack Davidge, became entangled in a curious skein of thrilling intrigue. The Sunset Trail A Western Story By JOSEPH MONTAGUE A caravan of red-topped prairie schooners with the magic word "California" painted on the canvas, set out to cross the plains from Fort Independence, and reach the promised land beyond. A tale of the picturesque pioneers of early Western fame. The White Rook A Detective Story !By HUGH McNAIR KAHLER A master cracksman, who made a laughingstock of the police, and will delight lovers of mystery spiced with a dash of humor, is the clever "White Rook." "Hell Bent" Harrison A Western Story By A. T. LOCKE Being a star rider and roper in the corral of a ranch and performing in a circus are two very different things, but "Hell Bent" Harrison made a big hit with both. Who Dares? An Adventure Story By LORING BRENT To Jimmy Webb, adventurer and mining engineer, the ad, for one who dared, had a special appeal, for he had been informed in a mysterious manner that it held the key to the secret of his father's violent death. The Canyon of Conflict A Western Story By GEORGE C. SHEDD When Mark Pitkin's water rights of a valley down in Turquoise Canyon in the Humberto Mountains of New Mexico, were disputed, he decide to fight — hard. At Your Bookseller's CHELSEA HOUSE, Publishers :: 79 Seventh Avenue, New York