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1Second Latchkey

By Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

Jewelry thefts, society parties, clairvoyance, and romance marks this mystery, which is set in England and the US in the early 20th century. (Summary by Gesine)

2It Happened in Egypt

By Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

Lord Ernest Borrow and Captain Anthony Fenton think they know a secret - a secret that could make them both rich. En route, they are sidetracked by Sir Marcus Antonius Lark, a woman who thinks she's Cleopatra reincarnate, a Gilded Rose of an American Heiress, and Mrs. Jones, a mysterious Irish woman with a past. Will they find the secret? Or will the trip up the Nile on the Enchantress Isis net them another discovery altogether? (summary by Sibella Denton)

3Problems in American Democracy

By Thames Williamson

<i>Problems in American Democracy</i> is a very detailed, specific explanation of some of the underlying and surface problems of a democracy system of government, particularly of the American form of democracy. Though lengthy, it is a great read for people who want to learn more about different types of government and the foundations of our own government in the United States of America. (Summary by Allyson Hester)

An American heiress nicknamed the Manitou Princess (after her daddy's richest silver mine) is devastated to find that her fiancé only loves her money, so she does what anyone might do: she bolts for Europe, dons male attire and sets out on a walking tour of the Alps. Though professing hatred of all men, she soon falls in with a just-jilted English lord, aptly named Monty Lane, who is attempting to walk off a broken heart of his own. The Princess Passes presents the ups and downs of their alpine relationship through the unpenetrating eyes of Lord Lane.<br /><br /> Co-author Alice Livingston, of Poughkeepsie, New York, mentions in her memoirs that she sailed for Europe after a boyfriend tried to shoot her. In London she met literary editor Charles Williamson and began writing for the story magazines of media mogul Lord Northcliffe. At one point she found herself scribbling six serials simultaneously, on the income from which she and Williamson married. She later spun some of her husband's detailed descriptive notes made during their motor-trips abroad into a string of bestselling novels involving automobiling, then a novelty<br /><br />. The central romantic action of The Princess Passes recalls comic situations of Shakespeare's cross-dressing heroines and is bookended by automobile-themed sequences as the narrator and friends (hero & heroine of the Williamsons' first novel, The Lightning Conductor) motor south through the magnificent, peaceful mountain passes of pre-World War I Europe. (Summary by Grant Hurlock)

5House by the Lock

By Alice Muriel Williamson

What secrets lay within the walls of the house by the lock? What secrets, if any, are held by the man who owns that mysterious house?<br><br>A body is found in a backwater creek not far from the house by the lock, but what leads Noel Stanton on a quest to determine who the killer might be is more than merely the disappearance of his American friend Harvey Farnham. He has reason to believe that the wealthy and influential owner of the house, Carson Wildred, might somehow be implicated in the coincidental disappearance and murder. But as Stanton's search progresses, he learns that his friend is safe and sound back in the U.S. and he therefore must learn more about the house itself with its peculiar construction, it's hidden passageways, and the peculiar smoke occasionally seen rising from its inaccessible areas. But everything is accounted for by the police, the servants, and Mr. Wildred during his investigation, leaving a most strange mystery left for Stanton to unravel. (Introduction by Roger Melin)

6Golden Silence

By Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

Trying to get away from an engagement he had got himself into more or less against his will, Stephen Knight travels to Algiers to visit his old friend Nevill. On the journey there he meets the charming and beautiful Victoria. She is on her way to Algiers to search for her sister, who had disappeared years ago after marrying an Arab nobleman. With the support of his friend, Stephen Knight decides to help the girl - but when she also disappears, the adventure begins... (Summary by Carolin)

7Girl Who Had Nothing

By Alice Muriel Williamson

The Girl Who Had Nothing is about a young orphan girl in desperate circumstances, who throws herself on the mercy of an elderly stranger. By her own intelligence and wit, she manages to survive, and very nicely at that! (Summary by LynnAlison)

8Astounding Stories 15, March 1931

By Ray Cummings, Charles Willard Diffin, F. V. W. Mason, Harl Vincent and Jack Williamson

This issue includes "When the Mountain Came to Miramar" by Charles W. Diffin, "Beyond the Vanishing Point" by Ray Cummings, "Terrors Unseen" by Harl Vincent, the conclusion of "Phalanxes of Atlans" by F. V. W. Mason, and "The Meteor Girl" by Jack Williamson. - Summary by Bill Boerst

9Salvage in Space

By Jack Williamson

This is an SF tale of excitement, danger, derring-do and strangely enough, love. A lonely and very poor asteroid miner, slowly collecting bits of metallic ore in the asteroid belt on his slowly accumulating 'planet' of debris, sees and captures a derelict space ship with a horrible monster aboard .. as well as a dead but lovely girl. How does it all end? Well you will need to listen to find out. One of Jack Williamson's early tales that earned him his reputation as a master story teller.</p>

10Astounding Stories 16, April 1931

By Ray Cummings, Tom Curry, Paul Ernst, Anthony Gilmore, Edmond Hamilton, Jack Williamson and Sewell Peaslee Wright

<b>Contents of this issue :-</b><br>MONSTERS OF MARS EDMOND HAMILTON - Three Martian-Duped Earth-Men Swing Open the Gates of Space That for So Long Had Barred the Greedy Hordes of the Red Planet. (A Complete Novelette.) <br> THE EXILE OF TIME RAY CUMMINGS - From Somewhere Out of Time Come a Swarm of Robots Who Inflict on New York the Awful Vengeance of the Diabolical Cripple Tugh. (Beginning a Four-Part Novel.) <br> HELL'S DIMENSION TOM CURRY - Professor Lambert Deliberately Ventures into a Vibrational Dimension to Join His Fiancée in Its Magnetic Torture-Fields. <br> THE WORLD BEHIND THE MOON PAUL ERNST - Two Intrepid Earth-Men Fight It Out with the Horrific Monsters of Zeud's Frightful Jungles. <br> FOUR MILES WITHIN ANTHONY GILMORE - Far Down into the Earth Goes a Gleaming Metal Sphere Whose Passengers Are Deadly Enemies. (A Complete Novelette.) <br> THE LAKE OF LIGHT JACK WILLIAMSON - In the Frozen Wastes at the Bottom of the World Two Explorers Find a Strange Pool of White Fire—and Have a Strange Adventure. <br> THE GHOST WORLD SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT - Commander John Hanson Records Another of His Thrilling Interplanetary Adventures with the Special Patrol Service. <br> THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US - A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories.

11Astounding Stories 19, July 1931

By Harry Bates, Ray Cummings, A. R. Holmes, H. Thompson Rich, Nat Schachner, Jack Williamson and Arthur L. Zagat

THE DOOM FROM PLANET 4 JACK WILLIAMSON A Ray of Fire, Green, Mysterious, Stabs Through the Night to Dan on His Ship. It Leads Him to an Island of Unearthly Peril.<br> THE HANDS OF ATEN H. G. WINTER Out of the Solid Ice Craig Hews Three Long-Frozen Egyptians and Is at Once Caught Up into Amazing Adventure. (A Complete Novelette.)<br> THE DIAMOND THUNDERBOLT H. THOMPSON RICH Locked in a Rocket and Fired into Space! Such Was the Fate which Awaited Young Stoddard at the End of the Diamond Trail!<br> THE SLAVE SHIP FROM SPACE A. R. HOLMES Three Kidnapped Earthlings Show Xantra of the Tillas How "Docile" Earth Slaves Can Be.<br> THE REVOLT OF THE MACHINES NAT SCHACHNER AND ARTHUR L. ZAGAT Something in the Many-Faceted Mind of the Master Machine Spurs It to Diabolical Revolt Against the Authority of Its Human Masters.<br> THE EXILE OF TIME RAY CUMMINGS Only Near the End of the World Does Fate Catch Up with Tugh, the Cripple Who Ran Amuck Through Time. (Conclusion.)<br> THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories.

"If, two years ago, when I was sixteen, I hadn’t wanted money to buy a white frock with roses on it, which I saw in Selfridge’s window, a secret crisis between the United States and Mexico would have been avoided; and the career of a splendid soldier would not have been broken.” Read here what happened to the girl, the soldier, and the white frock. - Summary by Carolin

13Great Pearl Secret

By Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

It is the afternoon before a grand society wedding between Juliet Phayre and the Duke of Claremanagh, when Emmy West drops by to visit the bride and to see the famed Tsarina pearls, only ever to be worn by the Duchess... supposedly. When Juliet admits she has never even seen them, Emmy lets slip she has once, even though the last duchess has been dead many years... were they worn by someone else? And who is Lyda Pavoya? And who is the bridegroom really?

143 SF Stories by Jack Williamson

By Jack Williamson

Three classic SF stories by Jack Williamson: The Cosmic Express, The Pygmy Planet and Salvage in Space. All were published in Astounding Stories in the very early 1930's. and all are fine examples of the far ranging imagination of science fiction writers of the day. - Summary by Phil Chenevert

A collection of short stories by Pansy, Rev. C.M. Livingston, and other authors. The first eleven stories are about Mary Burton, who, although she is unable to go to Europe like her cousin, decides to visit Britain through books and write letters to her friend of her "travels". - Summary by TriciaG

16Green Girl

By Jack Williamson

In a very recent issue of Science and Invention Dr. Hartman tells of the amazing discoveries he has made in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Sicily, when he went below the sea in his newly constructed steel diving bell, which was designed to withstand a pressure of 2,500 pounds per square inch or a sub-sea depth of about 5,000 feet. During his latest venture below the sea level, Dr. Hartman discovered a prehistoric city—perhaps the Lost Atlantis. Why, then, should it be impossible to assume that there might be cities—even vast cities—submerged miles below the Pacific, for instance, and made habitable? But whatever else might be said, "The Green Girl" is a scientifiction classic that will rank with the best that have ever been published. Though it is a wild, exciting, fantastic tale, it is exceedingly plausible withal. - Summary from Original Gutenberg text

17After World's End

By Jack Williamson

Could the Earthmen ever win against Malgarth, the Robot monster? Was their only hope Barry Horn, who had waked from the age-long amnesic sleep of the cosmic rays, and Dona Keradin, the wonder-girl in the carbon crystal? - Summary by Original text

18Motor Maid

By Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

This is the story of Lys d'Angely. She was in need of a job and managed to get one as a maid to Lady Turnour, because she, in her anger, had fired the previous maid. Lady Turnour and Sir Samuel were about to leave for a motor tour. During this tour, Lys starts referring to herself as The Motor Maid. (Summary by ShrimpPhish)

19Have We No Rights? A Frank Discussion of the "Rights" of Missionaries

By Mabel Williamson

As Americans, we highly value our rights, but are we willing to sacrifice those rights for the cause of Christ? In 1 Corinthians 9, Paul tells us about the rights he sacrificed to more effectively share the gospel. Have We No Rights? by Mabel Williamson examines several rights that missionaries must lay aside, but comforts us with the knowledge that Christ laid aside His rights for us and He will be sufficient for us. For each "right," Mabel shares stories from her and others' experience of moving to China and learning to subordinate their "rights" to the furtherance of the gospel. (Summary by Aletheia Charis)

20Rosemary in Search of a Father

By Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

Rosemary lives at home with her mother. She hopes to find her father one day. - Summary by ShrimpPhish

21Mark of the Monster

By Jack Williamson

A vivid thrill-tale of the black altar on the hill-top, and the dark doom that hung over two lovers like a living horror! - Summary by Weird Tales, May 1937

- Summary by Czandra