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| Parent company | T.V. Boardman, Ltd. |
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| Status | defunct (1967) |
| Founded | 1930s |
| Founder | Thomas Volney Boardman |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | London |
| Key people | Denis McLoughlin |
| Publication types | Books, Pulp magazines, Comic books (1937–1961) |
| Fiction genres | mystery, fantasy, science fiction |
| Imprints | Popular Press Rotogravure |
T.V. Boardman, Ltd. (Boardman Books) was a London publishing houses that turned out both paperback and hardcover books, pulp magazines, and comic books. Founded by Thomas Volney Boardman in the 1930s, Boardman Books is best known for publishing the long-running monthly series of hardcover Bloodhound Mysteries, most with jacket illustrations by Denis McLoughlin. Boardman's Best American Detective Stories of the Year series is thought by some scholars of the genre[who?] to be the best collection of hard-boiled fiction ever published. Boardman published the first British hardcover edition of Robert E. Howard's The Coming of Conan as well as other titles originated by Gnome Press in the United States. Besides mystery, fantasy, and science fiction, Boardman Books published other genres of fiction and nonfiction.