Male : Novelist of westerns, thrillers and pulp stories. Married Lois Mahood in 1931

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Elmer, Minnesota

Date of Birth : 1904 Date of Death : 1969 Age : 65

Pseudonyms : Stephen Acre. Charles K Boston. John K Vedder

1939
Peace Marshal (1939 Morrow) (1957 Barker)

1941-1942
Outlaw (1941 Farrar & Rinehart) (1942 Wright & Brown)
The French Key (1940 Farrar & Rinehart) (1941 Robert Hale)
The Laughing Fox (1940 Farrar & Rinehart) (1942 Nicholson & Watson)
Simon Lash, Private Detective (1941 Farrar & Rinehart)
(1943 as "Simon Lash, Detective" Nicholson & Watson)
The Hungry Dog (1941 Farrar & Rinehart) (1950 Nicholson & Watson)
The Navy Colt (1941 Farrar & Rinehart) (1942 Nicholson & Watson)
The Last Doorbell (1941 Holt) - as John K Vedder
The Silver Jackass (1941 Reynal & Hitchcock) - as Charles K Boston
The Talking Clock (1941 Farrar & Rinehart) (1942 Nicholson & Watson)
The Gift Horse (1942 Farrar & Rinehart) (1943 Nicholson & Watson)
The Mighty Blockhead (1942 Farrar & Rinehart) (1948 Nicholson & Watson)
The Yellow Overcoat (1942 Dodd Mead) - as Stephen Acre
Gunsight (1942 Dodd Mead) (1943 Wright & Brown)
The Buffalo Box (1942 Farrar & Rinehart) (1944 Nicholson & Watson)

1943-1946
The Silver Tombstone (1945 Farrar & Rinehart) (1949 Nicholson & Watson)
Beagle Scented Murder (1946 Rinehart)

1947-1950
The Honest Dealer (1947 Rinehart)
The Fourth Letter (1947 Rinehart)
The Whispering Master (1947 Rinehart) (1956 Panther Pb)
The Scarlet Feather (1948 Rinehart) (1951 Cherry Tree Pb)
Murder '97 (1948 Rinehart) (1956 Barker)
Fighting Man (1948 Rinehart) (1951 Wright & Brown)
The Lock and the Key (1948 Rinehart) (1950 World's Work)
The Leather Dukes (1949 Rinehart) (1950 Pemberton Pb)
Broken Lance (1949 Rinehart) (1952 Wright & Brown)
Smoky Road (1949 Rinehart)

1951-1955
Fort Starvation (1953 Rinehart)
Quantrell's Raiders (1953 Ace Double Pb)
Bitter Sage (1954 Rinehart) (1955 Wright & Brown)
The Limping Goose (1954 Rinehart)
The Lonesome Badger (1954 Rinehart)
Bugles West (1954 Rinehart) (1956 Barker)
Johnny Vengeance (1954 Rinehart) (1956 Wright & Brown)
The Highwayman (1955 Rinehart) (1957 Barker)

1956-1960
Tension at Table Rock (1956 Bantam US Pb)
[Filmed in 1956]
The Man from Missouri (1956 Popular Library Pb) - ss
Buffalo Grass (1956 Rinehart) (1957 Barker Pb)
[Filmed in 1971 as "The Big Land"]
The Big Land (1957 Bantam US Pb)
The Marshal (1958 Rinehart) (1959 Barker)
Tales of Wells Fargo (1958 Bantam US Pb) (1958 Corgi Pb) - ss
Town Tamer (1958 Rinehart) (1958 Barker)
The Bushwhackers (1959 Rinehart) (1960 Four Square Pb)

After 1961
Twenty Plus Two (1961 Dutton) (1961 Boardman)
Horatio Alger Jnr : A Biography and Bibliography (1961 PP, USA)
Brothers of Silence (1962 Dutton) (1964 Boardman)
Bridge of Stand (1963 Dutton) (1964 Boardman)
The Greek Affair (1964 Dutton) (1965 Boardman)
Little Hercules (1965 Dutton) (1966 Boardman)
Run, Fool, Run (1966 Dutton) (1967 Hale)
Brass Knuckles (1966 Sherbourne Press, US) - ss
The Twilight Man (1967 Dutton) (1967 Hale)
The Gun is Still (1967 Bantam US Pb)
The Pulp Jungle (1967 Sherbourne Press, US)
The Dawn Raiders (1968 Bantam US Pb)
The Gold Gap (1968 Dutton) (1968 Hale)
The Curly Wolf (1969 Bantam US Pb)
The Etruscan Bull (1969 Dutton) (1970 Hale)
The Spanish Prisoner (1969 Dutton) (1970 Hale)
Zane Grey : A Biography (1970 World, US)
Wanted ! (1971 Bantam US Pb)