A different cover, featuring a fine feathered friend but still using the circle motif. Parts of this adventure were used in the 1937 radio episode "The Red Macaw". Both this novel and the script were reprinted in the 40th issue of the double novels from Sanctum Books.
John Olsen pointed out an interesting oddity in this story. "It was interesting that an actual telephone number was used in this story. Usually author Walter Gibson might write that a phone number was dialed, but he wouldn't specify exactly what it was. But in this story, for some reason, he specifically wrote the number was Seabright 0664. Being of curious nature, I wondered if that was an actual phone number back in 1933 or was just made up. Thanks to the wonderful folks who maintain the website of the Telephone Exchange Name Project (http://tenproject.cloudapp.net/tensearch.aspx) I was able to determine that, yes, Seabright 0664 was an actual telephone exchange in New Jersey. Now if we could only discover what person had that phone number in real life. Was Walter Gibson playing a prank on someone? We may never know."
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