Alliance Press and Alliance Book Corporation (Fingerprint Mysteries) were two separate presses that happened to use the same name. Alliance Press was begun in 1882 by the Rev. Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843-1919), founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, a Presbyterian evangelical movement, and at least at first, Alliance Press published literature connected with the group’s evangelistic mission. Albert Simpson died in 1919, but Alliance Press stayed in operation until 1941 or so. They did publish one mystery novel in their nearly 60 years in the publishing business; see above. The Alliance Book Corporation was established by Henry G. Koppell in 1938, totally independently of Alliance Press, and their books are not at all alike. As Victor Berch has established, Alliance Books was eventually purchased by Ziff-Davis, and the “Fingerprint Mystery” logo they created for their line of mystery fiction was carried over to a similar imprint for Z-D. For more on the Alliance Book Corporation, see our article and checklist of the Ziff-Davis Fingerprint mysteries.
– Bill
Pronzini
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WILLIAM BOGART
Hell on Friday (1941) |
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ROBERT AVERY
The Corpse in Company K (1942) |
PETER MARSH
The Devil’s Daughter (1942) |