Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote THE EFFICIENCY EXPERT in thirty-one days from September 22 through October 22, 1919. According to the author's working note book, it was his thirty-sixth novel. The first North American serial rights only were sold to the Frank A. Munsey Company and the story appeared as a four part serial in ARGOSY ALL-STORY WEEKLY from October 8 through October 29, 1921. Stockton Mulford did a cover painting for the October 8 issue illustrating a scene from chapter 26 (reproduced below) visualizing the Lizard as he alights from a taxi and observes "Little Eva" in another taxi. The illustration correlates with the text on page 73 (of the Greystoke edition): "A man stepped out and peered through the glass of her machine. It was the Lizard."The first edition of THE EFFICIENCY EXPERT was authorized by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. and published by House of Greystoke in 1966. It has 84 pages and paper covers. The frontispiece is original art by Frank Frazetta. The four interior illustrations by Roger B. Morrison are reprints of the chapter headings for the ARGOSY ALL-STORY serial. The decorations on the contents page are the work of J. Allen St. John, as are the drawing and lettering on the inside cover and the decoration on the back cover.
I. JIMMY TORRENCE, JR.
II. JIMMY WILL ACCEPT A POSITION
III. THE LIZARD
IV. JIMMY HUNTS A JOB
V. JIMMY LANDS ONE
VI. HAROLD PLAYS THE RAVEN
VII. JOBLESS AGAIN
VIII. BREAD FROM THE WATERS
IX. HAROLD SITS IN A GAME
X. AT FEINHEIMER'S
XI. CHRISTMAS EVE
XII. UP OR DOWN
XIII. HARRIET PHILOSOPHIZES
XIV. IN AGAIN -- OUT AGAIN
XV. LITTLE EVA
XVI. JIMMY THROWS A BLUFF
XVII. JIMMY ON THE JOB
XVIII. THE EFFICIENCY EXPERT
XIX. PLOTTING
XX. AN INVITATION TO DINE
XXI. JIMMY TELLS THE TRUTH
XXII. A LETTER FROM MURRAY
XXIII. LAID UP
XXIV. IN THE TOILS
XXV. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
XXVI. "THE ONLY FRIENDS HE HAS"
XXVII. THE TRIAL
XXVIII. THE VERDICT
Pulp Chapter Heading Illustrations by Roger Morrison
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