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Hank Janson
Ace crime reporter Hank Janson meets the girl of his dreams, Sally Taylor, only to have her taken from him by a cruel twist of fate when she suddenly dies…
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All is not well in Hank’s relationship with Sally Taylor, and when he winds up in a replica Wild West ghost town, where gambling, drugs and prostitution are rife, things…
Persuaded to take a supposedly restful Florida vacation from his job as the Chicago Chronicle’s ace crime reporter, Hank Janson finds his frustration mounting as he encounters a succession of…
Classic pulp crime thrillers from the 1940s and 1950s. In their time, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of…
Murder, blackmail, a femme fatale and switched identities … just everyday problems for Hank Janson. With their erotic pin-up covers and hardboiled crime tales, the Hank Janson pulp paperback novels…
Heavily scrutinised of all in the infamous Hank Janson obscenity trials at the Old Bailey in the mid-1950s, this book was effectively banned from British bookshops. This edition allows readers…
Hank Janson’s chance meeting with a beautiful female hitchhiker, Cora Tanter, is just the start of a thrilling tale involving an elderly archaeologist, his rich but suicidal young wife, and…
Hank Janson’s latest Chicago Chronicle assignment sees him visiting a small town in the deep South, where he meets the beautiful green-eyed blonde Virginia Leighton … and falls foul of…
Chicago Chronicle reporter Hank Janson is caught up in a convoluted web of intrigue involving telepathy, murder, grave robbing, pornographic photographs, infidelity and suicide! He is faced with having to…
Only recently out of the Army and back in the USA after fighting the Japanese in the Far East, Hank Janson is in no mood to just sit back and…
When a successful but brutish playwright is stabbed to death in the aftermath of a wild party, there is no shortage of suspects - but which is the killer? In…
Hard-as-nails gangster ‘Big Nick’ Fenner and his associate Joey have known each other since childhood, when Fenner stood by as Joey was injured by a gunshot that left him mentally…
At a promotional event for a new car, Hank Janson encounters his cousins, whose wartime experiences in a Nazi concentration camp haunt them still. When a journalistic assignment leads Hank…
Out-of-work writer Amber Blake thinks his luck is in when he lands a live-in job at the home of a wealthy widow, whose attractive young niece Carol has been starved…
A seemingly innocuous visit to a fashion show leads Chicago Chronicle’s ace reporter Hank Janson into a web of murder and intrigue with dark secrets from the past. Uncovering a…
Chicago Chronicle’s ace reporter Hank Janson is back on the case as he is sent to investigate a bomb blast at an apartment and gets caught up in a web…
Lee Shelton is a man with a tragic past and a deeply troubled present. Framed for a murder he didn’t commit, forced to kidnap and chain up a beautiful passer-by…
Stephen James Walker
A complete visual history of the Hank Janson book ranges, from 1946 to 1971 - and beyond. A glorious, full colour celebration of a vintage British publishing sensation!
