Books: Southern Belle

BELLE BOYD, CONFEDERATE SPY—Louis A. Sigaud—The Diefz Press ($3).

Three years ago Mrs. Louis Sigaud of Brooklyn read an article in a pulp detective-story magazine about a famed Confederate spy named Belle Boyd. Turning to her husband, she remarked that the subject would make a good book. Her husband, who should know, agreed. A World War I counterespionage agent who rose to be a lieutenant colonel in the Military Intelligence Reserve, he proceeded to write the book himself.

Hearts and Information. Born of good family in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Belle Boyd made her debut in...

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