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      • Hank Janson is both a fictional character and a pseudonym created by the English author Stephen Daniel Frances who died in 1989.
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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Hank_JansonHank Janson - Wikipedia

    Hank Janson is both a fictional character and a pseudonym created by the English author Stephen Daniel Frances who died in 1989. Frances wrote a series of thrillers by, and often featuring, Hank Janson, beginning with When Dames Get Tough (1946).

  3. Mar 21, 2020 · would the real hank janson please stand up? Stephen D. France, Hanson’s creator and the first to use the house pen name, was the sole author of the books from 1946 to 1953, and occasionally contributed to the canon until 1959, but by then the public demand was so great that other writers were soon invited onboard the gravy train, including D ...

  4. Hank Janson was basically an umbrella name under which several authors operated using the same series character. Stephen D. Francis was the originator, born England 1917, the subsequent huge sales brought him success and fame.

    Title
    Publisher
    Date
    Issue Points - Notes
    When Dames Get Tough
    Ward & Hitchon
    1946
    Not in the English Catalogue of Books nor ...
    Gun Moll for Hire
    Frances
    1948
    RH
    This Woman Is Death
    Frances
    1948
    RH
    Lady, Mind That Corpse
    Frances
    1948
    RH
  5. Holland also presents a full biography of Hank Janson – in reality, a man named Stephen D Frances – from his early life, through the highs and lows he experienced with the Janson novels, to his eventual decline and death in Spain, cut off from the character he had created.

  6. Feb 3, 2021 · He produced artwork for comic strips and jigsaw puzzles. He is, however, perhaps most closely associated with the work of Hank Janson, which I have to say doesn't appeal to me in the slightest. Titles like Hotsy-You'll Be Chilled, Slay-Ride for Cutie, and Death Wore a Petticoat speak for themselves. Unfortunately.

  7. The Trials of Hank Janson presents a full biography of that author - in reality, a man named Stephen D Frances - from his early life, through the highs and lows he experienced with the...

  8. Jan 30, 2024 · Although marketed as archetypal American hard-bitten private eye stories, Janson was the pen mane of a string of British writers, beginning with Stephen D Frances, who bore the flame from 1946 to 1953, but then shared between Frances, D F Crawley, Harry Hobson and Victor Norwood until the series ran out of steam in 1968.

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