#jackson gregory

[fitsofgloom]

Now The Hacienda's Dark

[seattlemysterybooks]

philsp

January 22, 1921 issue

cover art by John A. Coughlin

stories included:

Jackson Gregory, “The Chinese Jewel” 

Anonymous: French Treasury Falls Prey to Forger   

Bertram Lebhar: New York’s Only Central Office Woman Detective Lieutenant

Anonymous: Two Hundred Dollars to Murder Family 

Anonymous: Stolen Painting Is Recovered 

Herman Landon, “The Gray Phantom’s Romance” (Part 2 of 5; The Gray Phantom)

Anonymous: Blind Man Recognizes Fake Money 

Lewes Hewitt, “Balbane, Conjurer Detective" (Balbane, Man of Mystery) 

Anonymous: Open Vault Door in Vain   

Charles W. Tyler, “Big-Nose Charley in the City of Culture" 

Anonymous: Lisbon Museum Robbed 

Johnston McCulley, “Black Star Comes Back” (Part 3 of 4)    

Anonymous: Mysterious Hotel Thefts Explained  

Seattle Mystery Bookshop

[the25centpaperback]

The Red Law by Jackson Gregory, cover by Unknown Artist (1954)

Jackson Gregory wrote more than 40 mysteries and westerns in the course of his career. 

The identity of the cover artist of this Popular Library reprint is a mystery: it doesn't look like the work of prolific collaborators "Im-Ho" (H. Lawrence Hoffman, Robert M. Holley and Sol Immerman), who designed or co-designed most of the publisher's early paperback covers. Nor does it resemble the well-known work of Rafael DeSoto, Rudolph Belarski, or Earle K. Bergey, who in the 1950s joined the ranks of Popular Library illustrators. It could be the work of A. Leslie Ross, who painted many a western paperback for Popular Library in a similar style. Anyone with information is encouraged to comment!

Thanks to David Saunders' invaluable Field Guide to Wild American Pulp Artists (www.pulpartists.com) for much of the information contained in this post!

[seattlemysterybooks]

philsp.com

January 3, 1920 issue

cover art by H. Tedlie

Seattle Mystery Bookshop

[jellobiafrasays]

sudden bill dorn (1937)

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Geez, talk about your flattops..