HER PIRATE PARTNER
By BERTA RUCK, author of "The Pearl Thief," "The Dancing Star," etc.
Miss Berta Ruck states the case for a girl of to-day who is restricted by a Victorian guardian's opinion that a good home should be enough. Young men and outside friends were taboo. How Dorothea took the law into her own hands, how she was extricated from a series of difficulties, makes a delightful story that is modern in the best sense of the word.
IT HAPPENED IN PEKIN
By LOUISE JORDAN MILN, author of "In a Shantung Garden," etc.
Another opportunity for Western eyes to see a little farther, penetrate a little deeper into the mysterious heart of China. The brilliant author of "Ruben and Ivy Sen" wields a searchlight which falls direct upon Chinese traditions and customs, joys and sorrows, hopes and fears.
MASTER VORST
By "SEAMARK," author of "Love's Enemy," "The Silent Six," etc.
Somewhere along the River, down past the Pool, the Death Maker has a laboratory—a germ-farm crawling alive with all the most hideous disease cultures you can think of. The maker of death has cultivated enough sudden death in this germ-farm to wipe out London in a night, and all Britain in a week. As we follow the intrepid Maine through the inner heart of Chinatown, there comes a feeling that sandbags descending from upper windows upon the passer-by are by no means beyond the range of possibility. It is all very well done—very convincing—and the reader will give thanks for Scotland Yard and men like Kellard Maine.
THE DESERT THOROUGHBRED
By JACKSON GREGORY, author of "Desert Valley." "The Wilderness Trail," etc.
In Jackson Gregory's latest and greatest story two lonely souls on their respective oases—widely separated by miles of burning desert sand—found one another after much adventure and tribulation. They came within an ace of disaster and death; Lasalle, outcast from his fellow men for a supposed murder, Camilla, bereft of protection, wandering in the desert. A powerful drama of the open spaces.
THE D'ARBLAY MYSTERY
By R. AUSTIN FREEMAN, author of "The Red Thumb-mark," "The Singing Bone," etc.
The discovery of a murdered man; the criminal unknown; the complete absence of clues; everything, in fact, which brings Thorndyke into his own, opens this absorbing mystery. He accumulates unnoticed evidence in his best manner, and leads his investigations up to a startling dénouement, which comes as a complete surprise.