The Lady Has a Scar

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 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. With their erotic pin-up covers and hardboiled crime tales, the Hank Janson pulp paperbacks 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. The Lady Has a Scar, originally published in 1950, is one of the most risqu? of these classic novels. It is reissued by Telos Publishing complete with its original cover by celebrated artist Reginald Heade.

Author: Hank Janson

Publisher: Telos Publishing Limited

Publication Date: Oct 16, 2013

Number of Pages: 218 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1845838734

ISBN-13: 9781845838737