Killer

by Hank Janson

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 a haul of valuable Roman artefacts. And just who is the mysterious figure making repeated attempts to assassinate Hank himself? Add to this the complications of his on-off relationship with Chicago Chronicle colleague Sheila Lang, and Hank really has his work cut out this time This reissue from Telos Publishing, complete with Reginald Heade's stunning original cover artwork, brings back into print, for the first time in decades, one of the books that featured heavily in the infamous Hank Janson obscenity trials of the 1950s.

150 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1952

About the author

A pseudonym used by Stephen Frances and Victor Norwood.

Hank Janson was the most popular and successful of British pulp fiction authors of the 1940s and 1950s. It was estimated that over five million of the author's books had been sold by 1954.

'When Dames Ge Tough' was the first Hank Janson novel in 1946 and there were around 220 featuring the tough Chicago reporter through to 'The Young Wolves' in 1968.

Many of the later novels were reputed to be the work of other authors.

Reviews

[Chris Stephens]

pure pulpy goodness,
filled with all the flaws
of a wonderful genre.