Found Pages: The Remarkable Harold Ernest (“Darcy Glinto”) Kelly, 1899–1969.
Sidebar 7: Hector and Harold Kelly as publishers
The Kellys’ operations included Everybody’s Books, Hector Kelly Ltd., and the Robin Hood Press, together with The Pinto Library (back cover of Bryn Logan’s Gullytown Gets a Marshal), The Other-World Book Club (back cover of Lady—Don’t Turn Over, 1952), and The Realistic Book Club (back cover of Curtains for Carrie, 1953), all of which presumably disseminated their books.
Here are such titles as I have been able to find through lists in Kelly books and by checking the British Library holdings.
1. Everybody’s Books, 1943–1946
1943
- John Creasey, The Toff on the Trail
- Justin Atholl, The Perfect Murder
- Preston Yorke, The Astounding Crime
- Preston Yorke, The Gamma Ray Murders
- More Tales of Terror and Surprise (short story collection)
- Tales of Murder and Mystery (short story collection)
- Tales of Mystery and Surprise (short story collection)
1944
- Eugene Ascher, The Grim Caretaker
- Eugene Ascher, Uncanny Adventures
- Justin Atholl, The Grey Beast (Murder to Music)
- Justin Atholl, The Land of Hidden Death
- Justin Atholl, There Goes His Ghost
- Justin Atholl, The Swastike Murders
- Justin Atholl, The Trackless Thing
- Cecil Bishop, Murder on the Second Floor
- Cecil Bishop, The Terrible Vengeance of Sen Tu [?]
- Cecil Bishop, Terror Comes to London
- John Lacey Cora, They Rubbed Him Out
- Allan Govan, Pearls of Death, and other stories
- Michael Hervey, Cut Price Murder and other stories
- Michael Hervey, Murder by Installment
- Michael Hervey, The Queer Looking Box, and other stories
- Edmund Snell, Emerald of Death
- Buck Toler, It’s Only Saps That Die
- Preston Yorke, The Case of the Strangled Seven
- Preston Yorke, The Case of the Swinging Spider
- Tales of Terror and the Unknown (short story collection)
1945
- Richard Marr, Death at Salterton Court
- Preston Yorke, Death on Priority I
- Third Finger--Left Hand, and Other Stories (short story reprint collection)
1946
- Buck Toler, Killer on the Run
2. Hector Kelly, Ltd. (ca. 1948–1954?)
Some or most of these books appear as Evergreen Westerns. Some are in The Pinto Library.
- Blairman, Jacqueline, afterwards Pinto, A Rebel at St. Agatha’s, 1949
- Brooke, Monica, When Passion Dies, 1951
- Carson, Lance, Brush Trail Feud
- Carson, Lance, Cattle Cache at Desert Pan
- Carson, Lance, Dan Furber—Outlaw
- Carson, Lance, Gambler’s Epitaph
- Carson, Lance, Stampede on the Trailing-M
- Carson, Lance, The Boss of Kaspar’s Jump
- Carson, Lance, The Trouble-Kid Quits, 1951
- Ernenwein, Leslie, Renegade Ramrod, 1053
- Flynn, Thomas Theodore, Murder Caravan, 1950
- Flynn, Thomas Theodore, It’s Murder, 1950
- Holt, Gordon, The Stables to L1,000,000, 1948
- Kelly, Harold, London Cameos, 1951
- Lehman, Paul Evan, By Means of a Gun, 1953
- Lehman, Paul Evan, The Cold Trail, 1950
- Lehman, Paul Evan, The Siren of Silver Valley, 1951
- Lehman, Paul Evan, Vengeance Valley
- Logan, Bryn, Gullytown Gets a Marshall
- Logan, Bryn, The Deputy of Squaw Rock
- Logan, Bryn, Gunfighters Die Young
- Logan, Bryn, Last of the Cattle Kings
- Logan, Bryn, Medicine Man
- Logan, Bryn, Sin Ross—Troubleshooter, 1950
- Logan, Bryn, Stage Line to Conchas, 1950
- Logan, Bryn, Trail from Boom Town, 1952
- Malleson, Wenda, A Heart Unconquered, 1953
- Malleson, Wenda, Love’s Blaze Burns On, 1951
- Manners, Daniel X., Dead to the World (“Detective story with a difference.”)
- Ratson, Milton Michel, No Weeds for the Wicked, 1951
- Vandel, Jean Gaston, Enemy Beyond Pluto, trans. Eugene Ascher
- Wayne, Clinton, The Grass Killers
- Wayne, Clinton, Hell-Driver on Nowhere Trail
- Wayne, Clinton, Sodbusters’ Saga, 1953
- Wayne, Clinton, Tinhorns on the Tilted-K
- Yorke, Preston, Death on Priority-1
- Yorke, Preston, Gamma Ray Murders
- Yorke, Preston, Space-Time Task Force, 1953
3. Robin Hood Press
Started in 1946 by Hector and Harold Kelly, with Hector as Managing Director, and coming to an end in 1955.
- Ascher, Eugene, There Were No Asper Ladies
- Carson, Lance, Brush Trail Feud
- Carson, Lance, Stampede on the Trailing-M
- Carson, Lance, War in Cholla Valley
- Flynn, T.T. (author of The Man From Laramie), Murder Caravan
- Glinto, Darcy, Blue Blood Flows East
- Glinto, Darcy, Curtains for Carrie
- Glinto, Darcy, Dainty was a Jane
- Glinto, Darcy, Dame Between Two
- Glinto, Darcy, “Dames Are Out” (reissue of Dainty was a Jane)
- Glinto, Darcy, Deep South Slave
- Glinto, Darcy, Lady—Don’t Turn Over (reissue)
- Glinto, Darcy, Mannequin Moll
- Glinto, Darcy, No Come Back from Connie
- Glinto, Darcy, Road Floozie (reissue)
- Glinto, Darcy, She Gave Me Hell and . . .
- Glinto, Darcy, Snow Vogue (reprint)
- Glinto, Darcy, Straight Up Girl
- Glinto, Darcy, “You Took Me—Keep Me” (reprint0
- Glinto, Darcy, Yours Truly, Hoodlum (reprint)
- Holt, Gordon, The Stables to £1,000,000
- Logan, Bryn, Sin Ross—Trouble Shooter
- Logan, Bryn, Stage Line to Conchas
- Logan, Bryn, The Deputy of Squaw Rock
- Prentiss, Sarah, Ordeal by Shame, introduced by Darcy Glinto
- Wayne, Clinton, Hell-Driver on Nowhere Trail
- Wayne, Clinton, Nesters on Okara
- Wayne, Clinton, Tinhorns on the Tilted-K
4. R.C. Publishing Co
I don’t know what this is, but Carson, Logan, and Wayne are Kelly authors.
- Carson, Lance, Brush Trail Feud
- Carson, Lance, Dan Furber—Outlaw
- Carson, Lance, Gambler’s Epitaph
- Carson, Lance, The Chronicle of Cheyenne Creek, 1952
- Logan, Bryn, Gullytown Gets a Marshal
- Logan, Bryn, Last of the Cattle Kings
- Logan, Bryn, Medicine Man
- Logan, Bryn, Stage Line to Conchas
- Logan, Bryn, The Deputy of Squaw Rock
- Logan, Bryn, The Trail from Boom Town
- Wayne, Clinton, The Grass Killers
- Wayne, Clinton, Tinhorns of the Tilted-K
Sidebars:
- Sidebar 1. Some Orchids
- Sidebar 2. Chase and Glinto
- Sidebar 3. The Pre-trial Glintos
- Sidebar 4. Deep South Slavery
- Sidebar 5. Darcy Janson
- Sidebar 6. Rogues’ Gallery
- Sidebar 8. Scandal
- Sidebar 9. Westerns
- Sidebar 10. City Mid-Week
- Sidebar 11. Gangdom
- Sidebar 12. Jungle Books
- Sidebar 13. Bodily Harms
- Sidebar 14. Propaganda?
May 2006