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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. Frances wrote a series of thrillers by, and often featuring, Hank Janson, beginning with When Dames Get Tough (1946).
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- Torment.
- Blonde on the Spot by Hank Janson (Pseudonym), Stephen D. Frances, Reginald Heade (Cover Artist)
- This Woman Is Death by Hank Janson (Pseudonym), Stephen D. Frances, Reginald Heade (Cover Artist)
- Accused.
Mar 21, 2020 · HANK JANSON wasn’t so much a “tough Chicago reporter” (or even, later in his career, a hard-boiled private eye) as a publishing phenomenon. In the years following World War II, there were over thirteen million Hank Janson paperbacks sold, mostly in the U.K.
Mar 1, 2012 · Colin Dunne on the novels of Hank Janson. Try it yourself. Assemble a handful of chaps of pensionable age – because these will be men whose voices were wavering between treble and tenor in the 1950s – and ask them if they remember the name Hank Janson.
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.
TitlePublisherDateIssue Points - NotesWhen Dames Get ToughWard & Hitchon1946Not in the English Catalogue of Books nor ...Gun Moll for HireFrances1948RHThis Woman Is DeathFrances1948RHLady, Mind That CorpseFrances1948RHJan 30, 2024 · This time the theme is Hank Janson novels. 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 ...
Hank Janson was the pseudonym adopted by author Stephen D Frances (pictured) when he created the Janson character and wrote the first of the books, a novella entitled When Dames Get Tough, in 1946.