Charles Boeckman

CHARLES BOECKMAN drew upon his jazz background to create cutting-edge fiction for detective-themed pulps and digest magazines. But he could trade his fedora for a Stetson and hammer out western yarns, often for the same publishers. A Texas native, Boeckman's fiction doesn't just ring with western authenticity-it's branded 100% USDA Pulp! Charles Boeckman's biography often reads like the stuff of pulp fiction. He left home in the early 1940s and became a jazz musician, traveling the country,...See more

CHARLES BOECKMAN drew upon his jazz background to create cutting-edge fiction for detective-themed pulps and digest magazines. But he could trade his fedora for a Stetson and hammer out western yarns, often for the same publishers. A Texas native, Boeckman's fiction doesn't just ring with western authenticity-it's branded 100% USDA Pulp! Charles Boeckman's biography often reads like the stuff of pulp fiction. He left home in the early 1940s and became a jazz musician, traveling the country, kicking around from New York City to New Orleans. In between gigs, he purchased a used typewriter and pounded out hardboiled stories. Eventually, the legendary Popular Publications editor Mike Tilden purchased one of his stories for Detective Tales. After that accomplishment, Boeckman's stories appeared in Dime Detective, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Manhunt, Star Western, and many others. Recently, he developed the Johnny Nickle jazz-detective series. See less