Alliance Press and Alliance Book
Corporation (Fingerprint
Mysteries) must have been two separate presses that happened to use the
same name, since their books are not at all alike. The latter may
have
been a Ziff-Davis
imprint, or affiliated with Z-D in some way, since the “Fingerprint
Mystery” logo Z-D used on its line of 40s mysteries was quite similar
to Alliance’s.
– Bill
Pronzini
New in the line-up ... THE FINGERPRINT MYSTERIES ... a thrilling series of fast action murder stories ... the kind you won’t forget in a hurry. We guarantee it! ... More, we’ve put an identifying fingerprint that's your clue to a real spine tingling, Alliance mystery ... to as exciting a yarn as ever stood hair on end.
It’s possible
that Jonathan Swift was another Standard Magazines book
imprint, also possible it was another of Sam Curl’s. JS mainly
published Godwin-style romances by Jack Woodford and others during its
short life, 1941-43, and there is a Godwin “look” to the books.
As far as I know William Godwin went out of business in the late 30s,
but a third possibility is that JS was a brief resurrection attempt by
Godwin.
More likely, the style was copied by either Standard or Curl.
– Bill
Pronzini
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