A. Maynard Barbour (–1941)

Found while perusing Project Gutenberg. It seems like a magazine serial with melodrama up the whazoo; murder, vast forutunes, ocean crossings, lost relatives (all with the same name, it seems), detectives in the Wild West, legal proceedings, declarations of loyalty in hotel lobbies while various people applaud, deathbed confessions of vast detail. By the end it really got way too over the top but a page turner, what the late A Common Reader might have called A Thumping Good Read.