Frails Can Be So Tough

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!

Frails Can Be So Tough tells the story of Lee Shelton, 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 hypodermic needle buried in his festering arm, he finds events conspiring against him. Will he be able to get out from under all these problems, or is a lengthy prison sentence or even death what fate has in store for him?

This intriguing thriller is the latest in Telos Publishing's acclaimed Hank Janson reissue series, and reinstates Reginald Heade's striking, previously-unpublished original artwork cover, which...