Author: HAZELTON, Harry.
Title: The Trail of Blood. A tale of New York. [bound with] Life Among the Red Indians. An Indian Romance.
Description: Glasgow, John S. Marr & Sons [c1870?]. Two volumes octavo together in contemporary quarter straight grain calf and cloth; 115 & 127pp. Some light browning but rather good. ¶ Rare Glasgow editions of rare enough dime novels; John S. Marr & Sons published cheap popular stuff between about 1865 and 1885. The more interesting is of course 'The Trail of Blood'. Worldcat lists a New York published edition copyrighted 1866 but can't find a copy in any library. Neither can I in any of the expected libraries. This Glasgow edition is is held by the Scottish National Library, who date it 1867, and the Library of Congress who are more circumspect dating it between 1866 and 1877. Cambridge University has a John S Marr printing of another Hazelton title (they date 1867) and tells us George Savage wrote as Harry Hazelton but no-one called George Savage would change that name to write cheap thrillers. Harry Hazelton was a Beadle house name usually applied to westerns and wilderness titles; it's a surprise to find it on a contemporary tale of turmoil, intrigue and murder set among the well to do of New York.

Keywords: literature fiction thrillers c19th America mystery detective New York