Albert Richard Wetjen (1900-1948) ran away to sea at 14, travelled widely, and turned to writing adventure stories in the early 1920s. He wrote for both the low-paying pulps (Action Stories, Adventure) and the high paying slicks (Colliers, Saturday Evening Post); he continued travelling, visiting Australia in the mid-1930s as a now celebrated author. This collection, prepared for Mobil Read Library by Terry Walker, includes stories from both pulps and slicks. With thanks to Matthias Kaether for some of the pulp stories; the others are from the Australian National Library on-line newspaper resource TROVE.
Full title: "Pearl Hunger and other adventures in the South Seas"
1: Value
2: Pearl Hunger: A Novelette
3: You Can't Explain These Things
4: Captain Typhoon (aka "Red Typhoon")
5: Trial by Typhoon: A Novelette
6: Trapped
7: Inconsistent Man
8: The Fortunes of War
9: Terror Island
10: Davey Jones' Loot
11: The Devil's Sink Hole
12: Cannibal Isle
13: Gambler's Luck
14: Master
Full title: "Pearl Hunger and other adventures in the South Seas"
1: Value
2: Pearl Hunger: A Novelette
3: You Can't Explain These Things
4: Captain Typhoon (aka "Red Typhoon")
5: Trial by Typhoon: A Novelette
6: Trapped
7: Inconsistent Man
8: The Fortunes of War
9: Terror Island
10: Davey Jones' Loot
11: The Devil's Sink Hole
12: Cannibal Isle
13: Gambler's Luck
14: Master
