Henry Bedford-Jones

Henry Bedford-Jones was a Canadian-born American writer whose enormous pulp-era output ranged across historical adventure, fantasy, westerns, and crime. D’Artagnan continues the world of The Three Musketeers and incorporates a fragment attributed to Alexandre Dumas into a new narrative by Bedford-Jones. Covici, Friede published the original volume in 1928 with a long subtitle explaining that sequel and manuscript relationship. Saint Michael’s Gold, issued by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1926, places an American adventurer amid the upheaval of revolutionary France and a struggle over treasure connected to Mont Saint-Michel. These novels reflect Bedford-Jones's enthusiasm for French history and for rapid storytelling built around travel, allegiance, and reversals of fortune. He published extensively in magazines including Blue Book and became known for unusual productivity, yet the two books also show careful reuse of European historical settings and literary traditions. Read together, they reveal how he joined original adventure plots to places, periods, and figures while writing for a broad popular audience.