[Pulpmeister]

A lot of Bedford Jones, who began writing before WW1, is out of copyright in the US already, and all of it is definitely out of copyright in Australia, NZ and Canada.

I suspect that, as an English author publishing extensively in the US market (Argosy, Adventure, Weird Tales and so on), he is likely one of the many who didn't renew copyrights after 28 years.

Some of his work is up on Roy Glashan's Library, an Australian PD on-line library.

He was enormously prolific. Just poking around in Internet Archive for a couple of hours I was able to assemble three 100,000 word volumes of short stories and novelettes in no time at all. (All, I repeat, PD here in Oz).

One intriguing idea he had was the Sphinx Emerald, a series on longish short stories following the trail through history of a rare jewel, an emerald with an internal flaw, which when held at a certain angle, closely resembles the Sphinx. Each story is self-contained, and in a different era: from ancient Egypt, through Roman Empire and medieval times, into the 20th century. I made up an ebook of the many Sphinx stories, and come January I'll post it in the Patricia Clarke Library, along with the aforesaid three volumes of short fiction once I've removed all the perky hard returns. Then I can make up covers and so forth.

He also wrote numerous adventure novels, including "D'Artagnan", a novel in the universe of Dumas, and a long series involving John Solomon, a peripatetic businessman based in the middle east, who first appeared in 1914. The chubby little man, ostensibly running a ships' chandlers chain of businesses, gets involved in many adventures.

For USA readers, there are three works by Henry Bedford-Jones in Project Gutenberg, an historical novel set in Ireland During Cromwell's time; a western; and a detective novel. All naturally pre-1924.