''Bloodhound Mystery'' is a novel series published by the London firm of T.V. Boardman Ltd. (
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 ...
) 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
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- ...
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.
*Holland, Steve. ''The Mushroom Jungle''. Zeon Books: Dilton Marsh, England, 1993.
*Lesser, Thomas M. "The Boardman Hardcovers," ''Paperback Parade'' #38 (April, 1994), 21–44.
Mystery novels by series
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