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E. K. Nostwell

A shadowy name from the pulp-magazine world, this writer is remembered today through a single surviving credit on a 1915 Nick Carter detective story. Very little biographical information appears to have survived, which only adds to the mystery.

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Nick Carter Stories No. 122, January 9, 1915: The suicide; or, Nick Carter and the lost head

Nick Carter Stories No. 122, January 9, 1915: The suicide; or, Nick Carter and the lost head

by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Burke Jenkins, E. K. Nostwell

About the author

E. K. Nostwell is a little-documented author associated with early 20th-century popular detective fiction. The clearest trace is a co-author credit on Nick Carter Stories No. 122, January 9, 1915: The Suicide; or, Nick Carter and the Lost Head, where the name appears alongside Burke Jenkins and Nicholas Carter.

Project Gutenberg and The Online Books Page both list that work under Nostwell's name, but readily available sources do not offer a fuller personal biography, dates, or confirmed background. That makes Nostwell one of those elusive pulp-era figures whose work survives more clearly than the life behind it.

For listeners and readers, the appeal lies partly in that setting: fast-moving mystery fiction from the magazine era, when detective adventures were written quickly, published widely, and often left only faint records of the people who helped create them.