Author Berton Ellsworth Cook (1889–1958) penned scores of stories about sea-faring life in the pages of the top pulp magazines of the 1930s & ’40s which were drawn from his own personal experiences in Downeast Maine. Cook’s long-running series of stories about the unique collection of an obsessive accumulator of treasures—Harden Bayle—was one of the highlights of Short Stories Magazine for over a decade. It’s a lost classic from the pulps which has never been given the attention it deserved… until now.
Never before reprinted, the entire 25-story series is assembled in an oversized deluxe edition.
The Collection of Harden Bayle (Deluxe Edition) by Berton E. Cook contains the following stories:
- “The Empress’s Earrings”
- “The Scroll of the Ten Little Flowers”
- “Panel of Treason”
- “Squire’s Island”
- “Portrait of the Senorita”
- “The Jonquil Case”
- “A Coat of Faded Blue”
- “The Left Eye of the Horse”
- “The Return of the King”
- “The Scalp of Anton Leak”
- “The Woman With the Gimlet Eyes”
- “A Bell for Bayle”
- “The God With the Open Mouth”
- “The Silver Parrot”
- “The Captain’s Whipping Boy”
- “The Universal Postage Stamps”
- “The Farmer’s Wife”
- “Mission to Shanghai”
- “Adoniram Kilburne’s Trophy”
- “The Senor’s Cane”
- “The Will of Captain Good”
- “Letters Under Seal”
- “The Unfinished Fan”
- “Brother Against Brother”
- “The Ginseng Man”
