author
A. L. Small
A shadowy early 20th-century pulp writer, this author appears in the record mainly through a single Nick Carter adventure from 1915. Very little biographical information survives, which only adds to the mystery around the name.
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Nick Carter Stories No. 123, January 16, 1915: Half a million ransom; or, Nick Carter and the needy nine.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Burke Jenkins, A. L. Small
About the author
A. L. Small is an obscure author whose name is preserved in public-domain publishing records rather than in detailed biographical sources. Project Gutenberg lists Small as a contributor to Nick Carter Stories No. 123, January 16, 1915: Half a million ransom; or, Nick Carter and the needy nine, alongside Nicholas Carter and Burke Jenkins.
Beyond that attribution, I couldn't confirm reliable details about Small's life, background, or wider body of work from the sources I found. For readers, that likely places A. L. Small among the many little-documented writers connected with the fast-moving world of dime novels and pulp-style popular fiction in the early 1900s.
Because the available information is so limited, even basic personal details remain uncertain. In cases like this, the surviving work often tells us more than the historical record does.