Frederick Nebel wrote prolifically for Dime Detective before moving on to more "respectable" work such as his thriller novel Sleepers East, which was made into a film, and magazine writing for Colliers, Cosmopolitan, and Good Housekeeping.
11 Facts About Frederick Nebel
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Frederick Nebel worked as a dockhand and a valet before moving to Canada where he worked as a farmhand on his great-uncle's homestead.
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Frederick Nebel enjoyed the wilderness and became a self-taught expert in Canadian history.
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Frederick Nebel returned to New York and got a job working as a brakeman on passenger trains and writing in his spare time.
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Frederick Nebel was a prolific writer, penning up to 5,000 words a day, often keeping five to six serial heroes in action from week to week for the pulps.
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From 1930 to 1935, Frederick Nebel wrote 15 Donahue stories for Black Mask.
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From 1931 to 1937, Frederick Nebel wrote nearly 50 stories for Dime Detective featuring the character Jack Cardigan, a tough, Irish detective working for the Cosmos Detective Agency in St Louis.
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Frederick Nebel sometimes wrote under the pen names Lewis Frederick Nebel, Eric Lewis and Grimes Hill, a name derived from Grymes Hill, near where he was born on Staten Island.
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Under Brandt's guidance, Frederick Nebel began selling to higher-paying slick magazines such as Collier's, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Liberty, McCall's, Redbook, The Saturday Evening Post and Woman's Home Companion.
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Frederick Nebel met his wife, Dorothy Blank, in Paris in 1928.
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In 1967 Frederick Nebel suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died three days later at age sixty-three.