Skirts Bring Me Sorrow

Hank Janson - Series Three #8

by Hank Janson (Pseudonym)

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 and 1950s, selling millions of copies to readers craving escapism from post-war austerity. Prosecutions under Britain’s then-harsh obscenity laws dealt them a severe blow, however, and today they are highly sought-after by collectors.



This Telos edition of Skirts Bring Me Sorrow reinstates the previously-unpublished original cover artwork by Reginald Heade, which was censored when the novel first appeared in 1951. Includes an introduction by pulp historian and writer Steve Holland.

188 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

[Timo]

Oikeastaan ihan mainio lehtimies-selvittää-kaiken-ja-saa-kaikki-naiset-seikkailu. Leppoisa.