Red Arrow - the Other Red Arrrow

The "Red Arrow" discussed in this blog wasn't the only Red Arrow in the vintage publishing world. In 1950, ten years after the American Red Arrow ended its 13 book life, London's T.V. Boardman Company, Limited started its Red Arrow imprint. As far as I can determine there were 33 books - 5 romance, 7 crime and 21 westerns. Here we'll look at the only one with a Canadian connection.

The Corpse Was a Blonde is a paperback original written by Canadian Horace Brown. Early in his career Brown was a newspaper reporter and editor. He worked as the script writer for the CBC in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Later he wrote plays and had stories published in magazines such as Saturday Night and Star Weekly. He also wrote for two short lived magazines he published, Original Detective Stories and All-New Western Stories.