Richard Wormser
Description
Richard Edward Wormser wrote pulp fiction, detective fiction, screenplays, and Westerns. , some of it written using the pseudonym of Ed Friend. He wrote approximately 300 short stories, 200 novelettes, and 12 books, as well as screenplays and stories that were turned into screenplays. He wrote seventeen novels in the Nick Carter series. He also wrote a cookbook, Southwest Cookery or At Home on the Range. He wrote under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Conrad Gerson and Ed Friend. He won two Western Spur Awards for juvenile fiction, one in 1964 for Ride a Northbound Horse, and one in 1971 for The Black Mustanger. In 1973 he won an Edgar Award for best paperback for The Intruder.
Books
The Black Mustanger
Already persecuted as Union sympathizers, a southern family's situation does not improve when they must seek aid from a half Negro, half Apache mustanger on the Texas plains.
The kidnapped circus
Captivated by the circus, twelve-year-old Ed joins the troupe in New Mexico. In his new life he encounters counterfeiters and is kidnapped, along with the circus, to entertain a looney hacienda owner.
Gone to Texas
To escape the oppression of the Reconstruction in Kentucky, a former Confederate soldier moves his family to Texas unaware of the dangerous cargo he has agreed to move with him.
The body looks familiar
"THE BODY LOOKS FAMILIAR This was no crime of passion. The killer sat patiently on the girl's satin-covered bed, drinking Scotch and soda, awaiting her return. He didn't smoke--some Sherlock might trace his brand. He had already taken care to plant the leads, to weave together the web of evidence that would direct the police unerringly to the wrong man. He didn't know the girl. When she entered, he thought it a pity to kill such a good-looker; then he held the cushion over the gun, and fired. The silk and feathers made an excellent muffler. It was too bad about the girl, but she was just a means to an end--and the end was to send another man to the chair... THE LATE MRS. FIVE When factory representative Paul Porter arrived at the small rural town of Lowndesburg, he little suspected that he would soon be under arrest for murder. Soon after his arrival he had been shocked to see his beautiful ex-wife Edith, getting into an expensive limousine. He had never seen her for years. Nor had he any idea that she was now married to the rich landowner John Hilliard the Fifth, to whose mansion he had later made a visit hoping to sell agricultural machinery--only to find nobody was at home. But the local police knew of his visit, and when they discovered Edith's dead body there, he became the prime suspect as the slayer of the late Mrs. Five!"--Amazon.com.
All's fair
Love is in the stars for a beautiful space trader and her handsome rival! Calista York was a stunning firebrand with a mind of her own; a golden-haired trader who could ward off a pirate attack as easily as a man's unwanted advances. For five long years, Rhys Fairdane roamed the universe, trying to forget the woman who had seared his soul with white-hot longing, then cast him into space. Yet by a twist of fate, he and Calista were both named trade representatives of the planet Karta. It would take all his strength to resist her voluptuous curves, all his cunning to subdue her feminine wiles. But if in war, as in love, all truly was fair, Calista had concealed weapons that would bring Rhys to his knees before the battle had even begun.
Roll of thunder, hear my cry and related readings
A nice girl like you
A shy young girl befriends a boy with a reputation as a troublemaker and convinces her family that there is more to him than appears on the surface.