H. Bedford-Jones

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  • Bibliography:
    73 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1953
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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  • Drums of Dambala

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    Harlequin Romance - 228

    This fine historical novel by adventure writer Henry Bedford-Jones -- the self-styled "King of the Pulps" -- focuses on Toussaint Louverture and the liberation of Haiti. It first appeared in 1932....

  • Malay Gold

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    Harlequin Romance - 232

  • Pulp Classics

    Originally published as a four-part serial in the legendary pulp magazine "The Thrill Book," here is the tale of Sir Gerald Desmond, late officer in his majesty's Royal Flying Corps. Broke and drunk in Manila, he befriends a consumptive Irish fiddler...

  • The Opium Ship

    Originally published as a four-part serial in the legendary pulp magazine "The Thrill Book," here is the story of Sir Gerald Desmond, late officer in His Majesty's Royal Flying Corps. Broke and drunk in Manila, he befriends a consumptive Irish fiddle...

  • The House Of Skulls And Other Tales From The Pulps

    This new collection from the pen of H. Bedford-Jones presents five of his most exciting works from the pulp magazines of the early 20th Century, four novelets and one short story. Included are "The House of Skulls," "Written in Red," "Yellow Intrigue...

  • Saint Michael's Gold

    H. Bedford-Jones, the "King of the Pulps," was among the most prolific and talented of the fiction writers for the pulp magazines of the 20th Century. He specialized in adventure, and his action-packed tales never disappoint....

  • The Breeze in the Moonlight

    This is one of the most ancient and celebrated novels of China. Scholars agree that it was written under the Yuan Dynasty, 1277-1348. The author is known only as "Ming-tsiao Chong-jen, signifying literally "The Medium of the Celebrated Doctrine." Thi...

  • Blood Royal

    "Had the king lived, there had been no murder of womenfolk; but Bedfort had shot down the king from behind and fled to Mackinac, untouched of the law, and the kingdom had fallen into hands weaker and more cruel. Therefore had come voyageur, lumberjac...

  • Pirates' Gold

    From the pages of the December, 1920 issue of "Adventure" magazine comes this thrilling tale of pirate adventure on the high seas -- a rousing action-adventure from H. Bedford-Jones, King of the Pulps...



  • The Cross and the Hammer

    H. Bedford-Jones' thrilling novel of the Vikings and King Olaf, who broke the power of the old gods and who introduced Christianity into his realm. One of H. Bedford-Jones' earliest novels, it's now part of The H. Bedford-Jones Library....

  • Arizona Argonauts

  • D'Artagnan

    This vintage book contains Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones's 1928 novel, "D'Artagnan". Although not written by Alexandre Dumas, D'Artagnan is a sequel to the his famous novel "The Three Musketeers" and continues the ...

  • Gimlet Eye Gunn

    Peter Larsen knew well enough that air personnel had often been forced to land on remote tropical islands. But he hadn't thought of any of them as being haunted islands. A classic that once appeared in Weird Tales, it's now part of The H. Bedford-Jon...

  • The Black Bull

    Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (1887 - 1949) was a Canadian historical adventure fantasy and Science fiction writer who became a naturalized United States citizen in 1908. He wrote over 100 novels. His works appeared in a number of pulp magazines....

  • The Blue Beetle and Other Short Stories

  • The King's Passport

    Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (1887â€"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, write...

  • Rodomont: A Romance of Mont St. Michel in the Days of Louis XIV

    Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (1887-1949) was a Canadian historical, adventure fantasy and science fiction writer who wrote over 100 novels, earning the nickname "King of the Pulps." His works have appeared in a number of magazines, including Wei...

  • The Mardi Gras Mystery

    This is a tale of armed robbery and murder in New Orleans....

  • Adventure Tales 6

    The sixth issue of ADVENTURE TALES includes 3 stories by H. Bedford-Jones ("Mustered Out," "The Badman's Brand," and "Surprise in Sulphur Springs") plus "The Fugitive Statue," by Vincent Starrett (featuring detecti...



  • Wilderness Trail

    The Financial Stability Of A Fledgling Nation Is Undermined By Ruthless River Pirates In 1810, the still-young United States of America continues its westward expansion as a national economy begins to flourish. But the country's commerce is seriousl...

  • The Golden Goshawk

    From Borneo to the Sulu Sea and Oriental ports in between, follow the adventures of Captain Dan Marguard as his sloop, the Gadfly, battles pirates, smugglers, headhunters, witch doctors and the infamous White Wolf of Nipe. Aided by his two Elder Brot...

  • The Rajah From Hell

    "These are superb yarns of suspense, written in terse, hardboiled prose. I think you'll be thoroughly entertained." -- James Reasoner.....................................................A Hindu Prince seeks retribution for an ancient offense. Now fou...

  • The Mesa Trail

    A ribbon of winding road leads northeast from the pueblo of Domingo and the snaky Bajada hill where gray rocks lie thickly; it is a yellowish ribbon of road, sweeping over the gigantic mesa toward Santa Fe and the sweetly glowing Blood of Christ peak...

  • O'Brien, Buccaneer

    In this thrilling swashbuckler saga former Jacobite fugitive James O'Brien with his ship and crew roams the seas from the Caribbean to the Barbary Coast in North Africa. Here the dauntless buccaneer captain sets his sharp rapier and his even sharper ...

  • The Sphinx Emerald

    A strange and mysterious gem named the Sphinx Emerald leaves its trail through history: a witness to many historic events and crosses the paths of both simple folk and famous men such as Alexander the Great, Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, Leonardo d...

  • Buccaneer Blood

    Fate leads Denis Burke, buccaneer-turned Irish soldier-of-fortune, from the intrigues of the Sun King’s Court to the distant shores of the Caribbean. Dramatic sea battles with crashing broadsides, exciting swordfights with traitorous villains, the ...

  • Cyrano

    Fighter, drinker, poet, rogue -- all of these and more was Cyrano, who rode so gayly into the intrigue that was shaking Louis XIII’s kingdom of France. More than a year after the events narrated by H. Bedford-Jones in "The King’s Passport," a now...

  • Abel Smith of Nantucket

    Two months after the United States flag had been raised on the Pacific coast, there arrived young Abel Smith of Nantucket--a Yankee adventurer in the New West. Never before reprinted, it's another volume in the Uniform H. Bedford-Jones Library....

  • Bellegarde

    The King’s Pardon: 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....



  • Bowie Knife

    Bowie and the Alamo "On to Texas " was the cry along the open trail which led to silver mines, slaves, acres of free land-and war Never before reprinted, it's part of the Uniform H. Bedford-Jones Library....

  • Texas Shall Be Free!

    Fighting Santa Ana for the Lone Star State The fantastic sequel to H. Bedford-Jones's novel Bowie Knife Gordon Durant had two missions in Texas--to carry a message to the defenders of the Alamo--and to kill his brother...

  • Barbary Gold

    Three men convalescing from wounds received during the war hatch a plan to recover gold rumored to be aboard a German U-boat sunk off the coast of Africa: one who knows where the sub went down, one familiar with the area and where the currents would ...

  • The King Makers

    House of Missing Men: Vincent Connor-to all simply a wealthy playboy-but his "play" was matching wits in tight places against wily Oriental intriguers and the theft of the priceless Han jades. Part of the H. Bedford-Jones Library....

  • Dead Men Singing

    Written in celebration of the Texas Centennial, H. Bedford-Jones once again authors an exciting, fast-paced lesson on the founding of the Lone Star State. As he wrote at the time: "My purpose in these articles is to try and paint those fighting Texia...

  • The Sphinx Strikes

    In this most dangerous game, The Sphinx, iron-nerved spy, was instructed-"Suspect everybody And remember, murder is nothing in this business." Collecting-for the first time-the entire series. Part of The H. Bedford-Jones Library....

  • Treasure Seekers

    Carson’s contraption failed as a mine-detector, but it could locate something buried much deeper: treasure. Thus spurred one of H. Bedford-Jones’ most exciting series, one that has never before been reprinted....

  • The Devil's Bosun

    Master Pirate of the Eastern Seas: Captain Cairn -- a man from Hell -- heads the Ta Ming for an island of brooding trouble! Never before reprinted, it’s a lost classic from the pen of H. Bedford-Jones, the King of the Pulps. Part of The H. Bedford-...

  • Our Far Flung Battle Line

    Denis Burke returns in this far-spanning, 12-part World War II epic, as espionage knows no borders. Full of secret agents and locales such as Casablanca, Iceland, the Solomon Islands, Brazil, Ireland, Japan, Malta, the Red Sea, and Trinidad. It's a l...

  • Will O' the Wisp

    To horse, ye English captains! In the king’s name, ride! For Brian Desmond, spy for France, takes the Dover road tonight! A superb novel of spies and swords and one of H. Bedford-Jones’ best historicals, as it originally appeared in Argosy Magazi...



  • Ghost Hills

    Up in the frozen north of Canada … an old secret and a lovely woman … and three men: Barr Radison, an American adventurer, searching for the mysterious source of black and silver fox pelts, Macferris Montenay, a ruthless giant of a man, trying to...

  • The Brazen Peacock

    H. Bedford-Jones pens this thrilling tale of adventure in the Middle East. Fraser, his whereabouts unknown to his father following the Great War, finds himself in the middle of a battle over a lost idol and on the road to Baghdad. And just what does ...

  • Adventures of a Professional Corpse

    Meet James F. Bronson, a man who finds dying a profitable business. Time after time, Bronson accepts assignments to whom dying is all in the day's work. One of the most offbeat series that H. Bedford-Jones penned; a series for which he was inspired b...

  • Conquest

    The story of Pierre Radisson has passed into history. That he was the first man to reach the Mississippi, after De Soto, is now admitted. It was he who founded the Hudson's Bay Company, and who opened up the great Northwest to the world. One of H. Be...

  • Invitation to a Crime

    Operating out of Morocco, American profiteer Denis Burke encounters business opportunities fraught with political intrigue, shady underworld characters, double-crossing associates, and devious women-all while trying not to run afoul of the law. Burke...

  • Red Runes of China

    The runes told of mystery, of danger lurking in odd corners, of the craft of the Orient put to evil purposes in the Far West, and started young Dick Clews on a great adventure.... A never-before-collected series, it's now part of The H. Bedford-Jones...

  • Thady Shea's Saga

    The Navajo's sacred relics, the seven Gods of the San Marcos, are the focus of attention between warring factions in the Old West, and washed-up actor Thaddeus Shea is caught in between the chaos! A classic adventure written by The King of the Pulps,...

  • The Life of Pinky Jenkins, Volume 1

    One of the best series ever published in the pulps was written by the prolific H. Bedford-Jones, author of hundreds of stories totaling an estimated 25 millions words. Thomas Jasper "Pinky" Jenkins, a drunk and corrupt sheriff accompanied by his depu...

  • Argosy

  • Colonel Flea

    Donn Curran asked for trouble when he stopped overnight with his brother, Jeff, in Hankow. For Jeff was a rascal, a treacherous fellow. And when he learned that his own brother was the notorious Colonel Flea, he determined to collect the price which ...



  • Pulp Adventures #24

    "Sheridan Rides Again," a Civil War/Reconstruction Days story by Sam Merwin, Jr. Confederate soldiers seek asylum in Mexico, and General Phil Sheridan suspects a new attempt at conquering the Union; Also, "Polaris" by H.P. Lovecraft, and Lovecraft-in...

  • The Ghost of Screwface Hanlon

    The nephew of a King of the Underworld inherits his fortune... and his enemies. But is Screwface Hanlon really dead? Crawford must find out, or he'll end up like his mysterious uncle! A never-before collected series by the King of the Pulps, auth...

  • Gunpowder Gold

    “Gunpowder gold?" exclaimed American secret agent Luther Grimm, "I’d steal and beg and rob and murder for it! For myself? No! For what flames in a man’s heart and soul, for what burns in his brain, for what drives him mad! For his father, f...

  • One More Hero - The Cases of the Fireboat Men

    Fireboat men must be not only firemen, but sailors, divers, engineers and police: dangerous callings, all. Collected for the first time, this colorful series centers around Gunboat Brendan and the tragic problem he met below the murky harbor water...

  • The Princess and the Prophet

    Nostradamus, Mary of Scotland, and other historical figures interact in a novel by the King of the Pulps, author H. Bedford-Jones.

    Under Nostradamus' care, wounded Scottish gentleman Cameron of Glenlyon was soon healed, and he told of his m...

  • They Lived by the Sword

    A fantastic novel of the World War of 218 B.C., and of Hannibal's invasion across the Alps--the greatest military feat in history. It's a novel by the King of the Pulps--author H. Bedford-Jones--which has never before appeared in book form.

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  • Warriors in Exile

    Collected for the first time is author H. Bedford-Jones' 17-part saga of the French Foreign Legion... a fascinating series based on the records of the most famous and picturesque fighting force of modern times. Featuring stories of the Foreign Leg...

  • Rendezvous

    American smuggler and gun-runner Denis Burke, abroad in Morocco, is dramatically confronted by French inspector Captain Crepin, who warns him he will catch him on his next run…...

  • The World Was Their Stage

    Spanning ancient Roman times, Normandy, medieval England and Germany, France, and colonial America, and including appearances by Cleopatra, d’Artagnan, and Cyrano de Bergerac, author H. Bedford-Jones details some of the most pivotable moments in...

  • Young Kit Carson

    Bold Venture Press presents a forgotten pulp classic through arrangement with Camille “Caz” Cazedessus, publisher of Pulpdom, a legendary journal documenting pulp fiction history prior to 1931.Originally published in 1939, and never befor...

  • Solomon's Quest

    A blue bead, marked with an Arabian sign, started it -- but, three men dies in two days because of this seemingly harmless ornament. The message it carried aroused a great secret organization and sent the narrator with the girl he loved… and Solomo...

  • The Gate of Farewell

    I have an older brother, or I had, five years ago. He was in business in New York, importing curios and art objects for rich collectors. Five years ago he got on the track of something big, though he never told a soul what it was, out in Africa somew...

  • The Jewels of Ling Ti

    Captain Jim Hanecy, agent and dealer in antiques, was no stranger to intrigue, but he and his partner, Toptit, soon found more than they bargained for in the ancient city of Cheng-tu. Never before reprinted in its entirely, The Jewels of Ling Ti is a...

  • Pirates Ain't All Dead Yet

    A story of modern-day seafaring by the King of the Pulps-H. Bedford-Jones-the whimsical Captain Struthers series is reminiscent of his popular Pinky Jenkins adventures. Never before reprinted, this edition also includes another of Bedford-Jones' sea ...

  • The Seal of John Solomon

    John Solomon returns! In this classic thriller from the pages of Argosy Magazine, the mysterious ship's chandler encounters a lost race of Crusaders deep in the Sahara. Continue the story of John Solomon, author H. Bedford-Jones' longest-running seri...

  • Gentleman Solomon

    Following the events in the deserts of Arabia that lead to the defeat of Lionel Parrish and the Senussiyeh, John Solomon accompanies Walter Firth back to Buffalo, New York to recuperate from his wounds. Hearing of the rubber atrocities going on in th...

  • Up the China Sea

    Bracken signed on as first office on the Fengshui and set off on a salvage job. But he didn't trust the captain -- one of those sly beggars, full of tricks against even his best friend, more than capable of knifing the ship's owner in the bac...

  • The Thunderbolt of Indra

    Four men have been marked for death by the vengeful Hindu who earned the name of the Rajah from Hell. A serialized novel by the King of the Pulps-H. Bedford-Jones-which includes all of the original pulp illustrations....

  • Solomon's Carpet and Solomon's Submarine

    John Solomon, the mysterious ship's chandler and secret agent, returns in two more rare adventures from early in prolific pulp author H. Bedford-Jones' career: Solomon's Carpet and Solomon's Submarine. Continue the story of John Solomon with this nex...

  • Berber Loot

    A madcap adventure in Morocco, complete with thrills, romance, and sudden death...and a wild hunt for stolen treasure! A pulp adventure as only H. Bedford-Jones, the...

  • Solomon's Son and John Solomon

    John Solomon, the mysterious ship's chandler and secret agent, returns in two more rare adventures from early in prolific pulp author H. Bedford-Jones' career: Solomon's Son and John Solomon. Continue the story of John Solomon with this next book in ...

  • He Swallows Gold

    When shady Reginald Carefrew picks up an exquisite jade candlestick for a bargain price in a Sabang bazaar, he thinks his luck is in. But the candlestick bears the emblem of a powerful secret society, and soon Carefrew is playing with forces beyond h...

  • Nuala O'Malley

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    Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (1887-1949), who also wrote under the pseudonyms Michael Gallister, Allan Hawkwood, Gordon Keyne and John Wycliffe, was a Canadian historical adventure fantasy and science fiction writer who became a naturalized Unit...

  • The Wolf Woman

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    H. Bedford-Jones was a hugely prolific author of pulp stories and dime novels. His 'Wolf Woman' is an excellent example of his work. Many of the horror stories of monsters and ghouls, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, ar...

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H. Bedford-Jones has published 73 books.

H. Bedford-Jones does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, He Swallows Gold, was published in February 2024.

The first book by H. Bedford-Jones, Drums of Dambala, was published in January 1953.

No. H. Bedford-Jones does not write books in series.
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