C. C. (Charles Carey) Waddell

Born in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1868, Charles Carey Waddell wrote under the name C. C. Waddell. Library and public-domain catalog records connect him with a substantial body of fiction, including adventure stories, mysteries, and Nick Carter tales, and show that his work circulated widely in inexpensive popular formats.

Waddell is also linked to The Girl of the Guard Line, a novel published in the 1910s, and to many shorter works now preserved in places like Project Gutenberg, Wikisource, and dime-novel reference databases. Those records suggest a versatile professional author who wrote for readers looking for suspense, action, and quick-moving plots.

He died in 1930 in New York City. Although detailed biographical information is limited in easily available sources, the surviving publication record gives a clear picture of a hardworking author whose stories belonged to the lively world of early American popular fiction.