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Richard Wormser


Born
in New York, New York, The United States
February 02, 1908

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Genre
Fiction


Richard Edward Wormser was an American writer of pulp fiction, detective fiction, screenplays, and Westerns, some of it written using the pseudonym of Ed Friend. He is estimated to have written 300 short stories, 200 novelettes, 12 books, many screenplays and stories turned into screenplays and a cookbook Southwest Cookery or At Home on the Range.

After graduating from Princeton University he became a prolific writer of pulp fiction under his own name, the pen name of Conrad Gerson, and wrote seventeen Nick Carter novels for Street & Smith.

Wormser's first crime fiction novel was The Man with the Wax Face in 1934. His first Western novel was The Lonesome Quarter in 1951.

During World War II he served as a forest ranger.

Wormser won Western Spu ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 673 ratings · 86 reviews · 45 distinct works • Similar authors
Longhorn Trail
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The Trouble Seeker
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A Nice Girl Like You (Lt An...
3.64 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1963 — 5 editions
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Drive East on 66 (Lt Andy B...
3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1961 — 8 editions
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Slattery's Range
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Ride a Northbound Horse
3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1964 — 10 editions
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Double Decker
3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings — 5 editions
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Perfect Pigeon
3.27 avg rating — 22 ratings — 6 editions
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Thief of Baghdad
4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1961
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The Wild Wild West
3.35 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1966 — 6 editions
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