who sold far more copies of his books than Bobbs-Merrill had. Both Century and Hutchinson would subsequently reissue many of Mundy's older works in the following few years. In January 1929 he registered a new company, Jeff Ramsden Inc, with two comrades. The company engaged in a variety of activities, including purchasing real estate, copyright, and inventions, although had foundered within months. The state department officially dissolved it in December 1936 for not paying tax. Directed by John Ford, Fox Film had produced a cinematic adaptation of King of the Khyber Pass, titled The Black Watch. Mundy disliked it, thinking that the acting was bad and describing it as "a disagreeable waste of money and an insult to the public". However, it allowed him to pay off the many debts that he owed. In March 1932, Mundy sold the film rights of The Ivory Trail to Universal Studios, who used it as the basis for Jungle Mystery, a film that was first released as a 12 episode serial and then as a full feature in 1935. In 1936, Paramount optioned Rung Ho!, although Mundy—unhappy with previous cinematic adaptations of his work—insisted on a significant level of creative control, producing a script for the film known as Fifty-Seven. 20th Century Fox also began work on their own adaptation of King of the Khyber Rifles, although this project ultimately never came to fruition. The changing nature of the market meant that Mundy had to write an increasing number of short stories in the final decade of his life, something that he was not happy about. In this period he not only published in Adventure and Argosy but also in a wider range of magazines, such as Blue Book, Short Stories, All Aces, and Golden Fleece. He also published work in American Sunday newspaper supplements like This Week and American Weekly, as well as in the Canadian Maclean's, and the British Britannia and Eve and The Passing Show. Mundy created a series of stories focusing on the character of Ben Quorn, the first instalments of which appeared in Adventure over the course of late 1928 and early 1929, the latter in Argosy. One of these, The Gunga Sahib, was set in the (fictional) Indian state of Narada. His final Quorn story was The Elephant Sahib for Argosy. Mundy produced a series of short stories, novelettes, and novels about the Criminal Investigation Division of