Richard Edward Wormser (February 2, 1908, in New York City, New York – July, c. 1977 in Tumacaciori, Arizona) was an American writer of pulp fiction, detective fiction, screenplays, and Westerns, some of it written using the pseudonym of Ed Friend.
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.
[1] Wormser's first crime fiction novel was The Man with the Wax Face in 1934.
[2] Hollywood purchased several of his stories beginning with his It's All in the Racket filmed as Sworn Enemy in 1936.
Wormser won Western Spur Awards for juvenile fiction for Ride a Northbound Horse in 1964, and for The Black Mustanger in 1971.