Bloodhound Mysteries: History and Key Facts

The Bloodhound was an imprint of Duell, Sloan & Pearce for the publishing of its suspense, crime, and detective fiction novels.

In the same manner as other publishers of mystery novels such as Doubleday's The Crime Club, J. B. Lippincott & Co.'s Main Line Mysteries, Simon & Schuster's Inner Sanctum, and William Morrow and Company's Morrow Mysteries, Duell, Sloan and Pearce adopted the Bloodhound as a branding device to mark their house style and make future releases readily identifiable to readers. The imprint had its distinctive colophon of a Bloodhound medallion, stamped on each book's spine and title page.

The Bloodhound imprint began in March 1940 with the publication of The So Blue Marble, by Dorothy B. Hughes, and ceased publication in August 1952 with the release of The Davidian Report, also by Hughes. In the intervening 13 years, The Bloodhound Imprint published approximately 112 titles by 34 writers.

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