In part VIII of my Newspaper Novels series I discussed the The Bangor Daily News "Book of the Week Complete Novel". I mentioned that the Daily News started using the Toronto Star Weekly novels in 1941 but had published their own at least for a couple of years. That's not entirely true. The Bangor Daily News novels were also seen in The Philadelphia Inquirer. The inserts have two differences. The Philadelphia version's illustrations are in colour and the Bangor version is 7.4 cm/3 inches longer with decorative features at the top and bottom of each page.
Did both newspapers get their novels from another source or did one create?
Here are three more.
October 28, 1939 - The Nation's Missing Guest by Hulbert Footner (Harper & Brothers, 1939)
August 26, 1939 - Moon Over Acadie by Louis Arthur Cunningham (Penn, 1937)
March 30, 1940 - Border of Blades by H. Bedford-Jones and W. R. Foran (first separate - first seen in the July 1913 issue of The Argosy)
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