![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Letter 'L' written in ink inside front cover. In the 1950s, the authorities attempted a crack-down on allegedly obscene pulp literature, targeting the Janson books among others. Although he had never been in Chicago, or even America, his books were violent "pseudo-American" thrillers sold in paperback editions featuring erotic cover art, and it is estimated that some five million copies were sold by 1954. He was the most popular and successful of British pulp fiction authors of the 1940s and 1950s. Hank Janson is both a fictional character and a pseudonym created by the English author Stephen Daniel Frances who died in 1989. Beauty and the Beat is sharp, clever, and catchy, explicitly drawing from the well of pre- Beatles ‘60s pop - girl group harmonies, to be sure, but surf-rock echoes throughout - but filtering it through the nervy energy of punk. Cover Art after (or possibly by, but unsigned) Reginald Heade. originally published in 1951 as "This Dame Dies Soon". In his latest assignment, Chicago Chronicle crime reporter Hank Janson finds himself participating in a striptease party game, being roughed up by the police investigators and dodging the attentions of a determined nymphomaniac, while he desperately tries to separate the clues from the red herrings. ![]()
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