Hank Janson

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2003
  • Latest Book:
    August 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Hank Janson

1 - Torment (Apr-2003)
2 - Women Hate Till Death (Apr-2003)
3 - Skirts Bring Me Sorrow (Nov-2003)
4 - Some Look Better Dead (Dec-2003)
5 - When Dames Get Tough (Sep-2004)
6 - Accused (Nov-2004)
7 - Frails Can Be So Tough (Jan-2005)
8 - Killer (Mar-2005)
9 - Broads Don't Scare Easy (Jun-2005)
10 - Kill Her If You Can (Sep-2005)
11 - Lillies For My Lovely (May-2014)
12 - Blonde on the Spot (Jan-2014)
13 - This Woman Is Death (Oct-2013)
14 - The Lady Has a Scar (Oct-2013)

Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • Torment

    Hank Janson - 1

    Classic pulp crime thrillers from the 1950s. In their time, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment One of the later entr...

  • Women Hate Till Death

    Hank Janson - 2

    In Women Hate Till Death (originally the seventh book in the third series of 'classic era' Hank Janson novels), Hank's attendance at a promotional event for a revolutionary new car leads him to encounter two cousins, Doris and Marion Langham, whose w...

  • Skirts Bring Me Sorrow

    Hank Janson - 3

    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 were a British publishing sensation in the 1940s a...

  • Some Look Better Dead

    Hank Janson - 4

    In Some Look Better Dead, 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. More information will follow......

  • When Dames Get Tough

    Hank Janson - 5

    This anthology of ultra-rarities reprints the first three Hank Janson novellas - When Dames Get Tough, Scarred Faces and Kitty Takes The Rap - which initially appeared in 1946 over two volumes (with the latter two collected together under the Scarred...

  • Accused

    Hank Janson - 6

    Telos Publishing is proud to bring back into print, after more than fifty years' absence, what most fans agree is one of the very best of the classic era Hank Janson novels. Accused was the most heavily scrutinised book of all in the infamous Hank Ja...

  • Frails Can Be So Tough

    Hank Janson - 7

    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 - who turns out to be a millionairess - in order to avoid capture, and with a broken hypo...

  • Killer

    Hank Janson - 8

    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 myst...

  • Broads Don't Scare Easy

    Hank Janson - 9

    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 impaired. Their lives since then have been closely intertwined - but w...



  • Kill Her If You Can

    Hank Janson - 10

    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 of intrigue and deception. The apartment's owner, the headstrong, independent young woman Beryl Pin...

  • Lilies for My Lovely

    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 of a heart attack. Or does she? Hank finds himself with a mystery to solve, as he becomes embro...

  • The Lady Has a Scar

    Hank Janson - 14

    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 his latest assignment, Chicago Chronicle crime reporter Hank Janson finds himself participat...

  • This Woman Is Death

    Hank Janson - 13

    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 take it when his old friend Lola gets caught in the crossfire of a bar-room shooting. He sets out to avenge ...

  • Blonde on the Spot

    Hank Janson - 12

    Blonde on the Spot, the seventh Hank Janson novel, picks up directly where Lilies for My Lovely, the sixth, left off. But all is not well in Hank’s relationship with Sally Taylor, and when he winds up in a replica Wild West ghost town, where gambli...

  • Lillies For My Lovely

    Hank Janson - 11

    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 readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment!In Lilies for...

  • Baby, Don't Dare Squeal

    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 of male company. But soon events take a murderous turn, and Blake finds his life beco...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Hank Janson has published 16 books.

Hank Janson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Baby, Don't Dare Squeal, was published in August 2017.

The first book by Hank Janson, Torment, was published in April 2003.

Yes. Hank Janson has 1 series.
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