A series of clever swindles conducted by a cheerful young man, each of which is just on the safe side of a State's prison offense. A prequel to Chester's successful Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford.
Was a reporter for the Detroit News and Sunday Editor of the Cincinnati Inquirer until he became a successful magazine and newspaper-syndicate writer. In the early 1920s he was briefly a movie director. He wrote many of his books and plays in collaberation with his second wife, Lillian.