Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 249, v1, 10 Feb 2026

[Pulpmeister]

The last story, by Roger Torrey, is a hard-boiled private eye tale which, in the contents of its magazine, was billed as a "full-length novel". This usually means in the region of 20,000 to 30,000 words. In the book publishing world outside the pulps, it's a novelette.

As usual, the total in this issue is around 100,000 words, all stories in the Life+70 years public domain.

1: The 13th Butter-Dish / A. E. Martin
2: Mistaken Identity / Lawrence B. Jupp
3: The Norther / C. T. Revere
4: Yellow Bowden / Albert Richard Wetjen
5: Mr. Jones / Edith Wharton
6: What The Boss Was Doing / Sumner Locke
7: The Terror of Moggil-Moggil / Mary Hannay Foott
8: The Border / Henry C. Rowland
9: Uncle Abraham's Romance / Edith Nesbit
10: A Very Satisfactory Fog / W. L. Alden
11: Misunderstood / J. H. M. Abbott
12: A Gentleman of Resource / J. S. Fletcher
13: The Mystery of the Hidden Legacy / J. S. Fletcher
14: The Clock Hands of Fate / Harold Mercer
15: Wolverden Tower / Grant Allen
16: On the Northern Ice / Elia W. Peattie
17: The Boarding House / James Joyce
18: Murder with Music / Roger Torrey (novelette)

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