RANSOM! The Story of a Lost Child; Intimate Chapters of a Film Star's Life

Reprinted for the first time! The lost complete 3,520 page, 110 issue serialized 1933 epic of Janelle Elliot. A young woman who travels the globe to rescue her stolen child held for ransom.

Janelle Elliot's never ending peril, disaster, and torment while fighting to pull her baby out of the cruel hands of predators leads her into a series of sensational dramas and crisis, gaining her national attention.  Amidst this unwelcome publicity she is offered a studio contract and becomes a movie star in Pre-Code Hollywood, California.

Hollywood's "Pre-Code Era" began after the rapid spread of sound movies in 1929 until the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines in 1934.  This first volume of RANSOM!  details the startling events leading up to Elliot's stardom.

RANSOM! The Story of a Lost Child; Intimate Chapters of a Film Star's Life is an odyssey with disaster, grisly murder, dramatic adventure, and romance in spades.  

In the first volume, Janelle is falsely accused of grand larceny, is framed in Greenwich Village for murder, sent to the electric chair, and attacked by bloody savages in Cuba!

This electrifying pulp serial will be in print for the first time since 1933. All 110 issues. Over 3520 pages in total.

Volume 5

Coming in 2025

Written by Grace Allen Hardy at the height of the Lindbergh Baby abduction and murder scandal, Ransom! was created for all audiences.