HONKY TONK GIRL
By Charles Beckman, Jr
Falcon Books, 1953

Pulp Noir novel by legendary pulp writer and jazz musician Charles Boeckman, Jr., who wrote under the name Charles Beckman, Jr.

Honky-Tonk Street--a dark, lonely, sordid edge of town--a place where Johnny Nickles and his jazz band are playing hot sets in seedy clubs and rundown bars. But a killer is stalking Johnny's band, and Johnny finds himself trapped in a deadly game of chicken with a local power broker, a corrupt sheriff, and a professional thug for hire. What's worse, the group's mysterious "Ghost Album," which memorializes and recreates classic jazz songs by long-dead masters, has become almost a curse on the band. This is a haunting, forgotten classic of the noir crime novel. Beckman knows his music and his setting, and struts them out as masterfully as any jazzman playing a hot solo to a packed house. It doesn't get much better than this!

5 1/4 x 7" 120-page DIGEST SIZED paperback book.

▲ VG+/-FINE CONDITION, with the usual surface wear & slight rubbing to covers from book being handled, read, stored and displayed.

▲ Some minor math problem resolved on back cover in blue ink

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