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Bloodhound Mystery
''Bloodhound Mystery'' is a novel series published by the London firm of T.V. Boardman Ltd. (Boardman Books) between 1948 and 1967. There were two sub-series, ''American Bloodhound Mysteries'' and ''British Bloodhound Mysteries''. Both series saw the original hardcover editions of many important works of detective/crime fiction. British artist Denis McLoughlin served as art director for Boardman Books T.V. Boardman, Ltd. (Boardman Books) was a London publishing houses that turned out both paperback and hardcover books, pulp magazines, and comic books. Founded by Thomas Volney Boardman in the 1930s, Boardman Books is best known for publishing ... and provided many of the dust jacket illustrations. Sources *Gore, Matthew H. "Collector's Corner: Denis McLoughlin," ''Goldenage Treasury Volume One''. AC Comics: Longwood, Florida, 2003. Unpaginated. *Holland, Steve. "The Lancashire Cowboy and the Bloodhound: The Art of Denis McLoughlin," ''Paperback Parade'' #24 (June, 1991), 60–62 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boardman Books
T.V. Boardman, Ltd. (Boardman Books) was a London publishing houses that turned out both paperback and hardcover books, pulp magazines, and comic books. Founded by Thomas Volney Boardman in the 1930s, Boardman Books is best known for publishing the long-running monthly series of hardcover Bloodhound Mysteries, most with jacket illustrations by Denis McLoughlin. Boardman's Best American Detective Stories of the Year series is thought by some scholars of the genre to be the best collection of hard-boiled fiction ever published. Boardman published the first British hardcover edition of Robert E. Howard's ''The Coming of Conan'' as well as other titles originated by Gnome Press in the United States. Besides mystery, fantasy, and science fiction, Boardman Books published other genres of fiction and nonfiction. History Boardman pioneered British reprinting of American comics. During the week of 16 October 1937, the first issue of a Boardman tabloid comic in the traditional British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis McLoughlin
Denis McLoughlin (15 April 1918 – 22 April 2002) was a well-known British illustrator. After a career that spanned eight decades, British illustrator Denis McLoughlin gained a degree of long overdue recognition in the late-1990s for his hard-boiled detective illustrations that graced book covers produced primarily for the London publishing house of T.V. Boardman, Ltd. (Boardman Books). It is this work, no doubt, with which McLoughlin will always be most strongly associated. Bio-bibliographer David Ashford claims for McLoughlin, "''In the history of British Illustration there is no one who can be reasonably compared to him. He does not fit anywhere into the British tradition.''" Ashford concludes that when it comes to hard-boiled illustration, McLoughlin is simply the best. Despite having produced over a hundred paperback covers, about 550 monthly ''Bloodhound Detective'' dust jacket illustrations, "scores" of ''Bloodhound Detective Story Magazine'' and other pulp magazine cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |