ARCADIA HOUSE  [1939-1947]

    From the American News Trade Journal, September 1934: “William Godwin, Inc., has organized a subsidiary to be known as Arcadia House Publications, which will publish good clean romances especially designed for the circulating library. The books will bear the Arcadia House imprint, but the publishing, advertising, distribution and billing will be handled by William Godwin.”


      When Godwin went out of business, circa 1937, Arcadia House was purchased by Alex Hillman and Sam Curl. No crime fiction was published by this imprint until 1939.  After the partnership ended in 1939, Curl went into business for himself; he retained the Arcadia  imprint, using it primarily for westerns and romances.

     Sam Curl continued the line until early 1948, when he went bankrupt and sold Arcadia House to Nat Wartels, the owner of Phoenix Press.  In 1952 Wartels merged AH with PP and went on publishing mysteries, westerns, and romances under the Arcadia name into the 60s.  (Just why he, Wartels, chose to continue with the AH rather than PP imprint is unclear, though it may be because the  books he published under the AH name had better sales.) 




  1939


INIGO JONES
The Clue of the Hungry Corpse


1940     No known publications.


1941


CHARLES STODDARD
The Trapper of Rat River


   
1942    No known publications.


1943


ANNE TEDLOCK BROOKS
Undertow


1944


E. C. R. LORAC
Checkmate to Murder



CHARLES STODDARD
Killer of Fort Norman




CHARLES STODDARD
Malloy of the Royal Mounted




1945


CHARLES STODDARD
The Timber Beasts







CLEMENT WOOD
The Corpse in the Guest Room



1946





RONA RANDALL
The Late Mrs. Lane






CHARLES STODDARD
The Killer of Sheep River



CHARLES STODDARD
Prairie Peril

1947


ROBERT AVERY
A Fast Man with a Dollar

JOE BARRY
The Clean-Up

WENZELL BROWN
Murder Seeks an Agent



ANN CARDWELL
Murder at Calamity House

JOE CSIDA
Crime Is of the Essence

KNIGHT RHOADES
She Died on the Stairway

CHARLES STODDARD
Tundra Trail

CLEMENT WOOD
Double Jeopardy

Note:  Covers for Arcadia House mysteries that appeared between 1952 and 1967 may appear here at a later date.  A full listing of these titles can be found in Murder at 3 Cents a Day.







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