Early twentieth-century novel by the popular American author. "The youngish-looking man who so vigorously swung off the train at Restview, wore a pair of intensely dark blue eyes which immediately photographed everything within their range of vision."
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.