Bellegarde

by H. Bedford-Jones

The King’s Neither the assassins in his path nor the warnings of that mysterious girl could stay the mission of the man France was to know as Bellegarde. Part of the Uniform H. Bedford-Jones Library.

226 pages, Paperback

First published November 26, 2014

About the author

Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (1887–1949) was a Canadian historical, adventure fantasy, science fiction, crime and Western writer who became a naturalized United States citizen in 1908. After being encouraged to try writing by his friend, writer William Wallace Cook, Bedford-Jones began writing dime novels and pulp magazine stories. Bedford-Jones was an enormously prolific writer; the pulp editor Harold Hersey once recalled meeting Bedford-Jones in Paris, where he was working on two novels simultaneously, each story on its own separate typewriter. Bedford-Jones cited Alexandre Dumas as his main influence, and wrote a sequel to Dumas' The Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan (1928). He wrote over 100 novels, earning the nickname "King of the Pulps". His works appeared in a number of pulp magazines. Bedford-Jones' main publisher was Blue Book magazine; he also appeared in Adventure, All-Story Weekly, Argosy, Short Stories, Top-Notch Magazine, The Magic Carpet, Golden Fleece, Ace-High Magazine, People's Story Magazine, Hutchinson's Adventure-Story Magazine, Detective Fiction Weekly, Western Story Magazine, and Weird Tales.

In addition to writing fiction, Bedford-Jones also worked as a journalist for the Boston Globe, and wrote poetry. Bedford-Jones was a friend of Erle Stanley Gardner and Vincent Starrett.

Reviews

[Matthew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Probably more 3.5 as there could've been a bit more swordplay than there was. Nevertheless a fun swashbuckler to have read as the blizzard outside threw down snow.

[Jose Vidal · Rating 4 out of 5]

El canadiense H. Bedford Jones fue uno de los autores de más éxito en el campo de la aventura histórica en la era dorada del pulp, aunque también se dedicó a otros géneros como los western o la novela criminal. Con una producción masiva la editorial Altus Press, que está haciendo una labor muy loable reeditando clásicos (y muchas obras menores) del pulp en inglés, ha decidido publicar una H. Bedford-Jones Library con sus obras más destacadas. En general las ediciones de Altus son correctas, aunque posiblemente algo caras, sin demasiado trabajo en forma de notas o análisis crítico.

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