Courtney Ryley Cooper

Courtney Ryley Cooper
Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886–1940) was an American writer, circus performer, and former journalist known for his works on crime, the FBI, and the American West. He wrote extensively about outlaws and law enforcement, often collaborating with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to produce works that supported the agency. Some of his notable books include "Here’s to Crime" and "Ten Thousand Public Enemies," both of which focus on organized crime during the early 20th century. Cooper's career was tragically cut short when he committed suicide in 1940.

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CHAPTER I It was over. The rambling house, with its rickety, old-fashioned furniture—and its memories—was now deserted, except for Robert Fairchild, and he was deserted within it, wandering from room to room, staring at familiar objects with the unfamiliar gaze of one whose vision suddenly has been warned by the visitation of death and the sense of loneliness that it brings. Loneliness, rather than... more...

THE WHITE DESERT CHAPTER I It was early afternoon. Near by, the smaller hills shimmered in the radiant warmth of late spring, the brownness of their foliage and boulders merging gradually upward to the green of the spruces and pines of the higher mountains, which in turn gave way before the somber blacks and whites of the main range, where yet the snow lingered from the clutch of winter, where the... more...