author
E. K. Nostwell
A little-known name from the pulp era, this author is credited on early 20th-century detective fiction tied to the long-running Nick Carter stories. The surviving record is thin, which only adds to the mystery around the name.
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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
E. K. Nostwell is an obscure authorial credit associated with early pulp detective fiction. Project Gutenberg lists Nostwell as a co-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.
The Dime Novel Bibliography also records E. K. Nostwell as a credited author and links the name to works including Good News and The Mysterious Rider. Beyond those bibliographic traces, reliable biographical details appear to be scarce, so even basic facts about Nostwell's life remain unconfirmed.
That scarcity makes the name interesting in its own right: it belongs to the crowded, collaborative world of dime novels and pulp publishing, where house names, shared credits, and lightly documented contributors were common. For modern readers, Nostwell survives less as a fully known public figure than as one of the many half-hidden names behind popular genre storytelling of the period.