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E. K. Nostwell
A shadowy name from the pulp-magazine era, this author is credited on at least one early Nick Carter story from 1915. Very little biographical information appears to survive, which only adds to the mystery around the byline.
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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
Available public records for this writer are extremely sparse. Project Gutenberg lists E. K. Nostwell as a credited author on Nick Carter Stories No. 122, January 9, 1915: The Suicide; or, Nick Carter and the Lost Head, alongside Nicholas Carter and Burke Jenkins.
That surviving credit suggests a connection to the fast-moving world of early twentieth-century detective pulp fiction, where house names, collaborations, and editorial bylines were common. Because reliable biographical sources are hard to find, it is safest to treat E. K. Nostwell as a little-documented figure associated with that 1915 publication rather than make stronger claims.
For readers, the appeal lies in that fragment of literary history: a nearly forgotten name attached to the colorful, serialized adventures that helped define popular crime fiction of the period.