Some Look Better Dead

Janson (Hank, pseud. Stephen Daniel Frances)

Published by Gaywood Press for S.D. Francis, London, 1950

Condition: Very good Soft cover

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First edition. 8vo. Original luridly-pictorial stapled wrappers. A 'Hank Janson' title, uncommon in the original disturbingly salacious wrappers and in such good condition. Frances enjoyed great success with his hardboiled US-style thrillers written under this pseudonym, opening the way for a variety of copycat British authors writing in a similar vein, but they did also court controversy when a murder supposedly inspired by one of the Hank Janson titles led to the publishers being taken to court and successfully prosecuted for obscenity (the author managed to avoid a similar fate on it seems a technicality). Seller Inventory # 85566

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Title: Some Look Better Dead

Publisher: Gaywood Press for S.D. Francis, London

Publication Date: 1950

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very good

Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket as issued

Edition: First edition.

Book Type: Book

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