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Edward P. Hendrick

Best known for a brisk, old-fashioned adventure style, this early 20th-century writer created stories full of mystery, youthful energy, and hidden dangers. His surviving work suggests a fondness for boys’ fiction with strong settings and plenty of suspense.

1 Audiobook

Copper Coleson's Ghost

Copper Coleson's Ghost

by Edward P. Hendrick

About the author

Edward P. Hendrick is a little-documented author whose work appears in early 20th-century juvenile fiction. The clearest confirmed title connected to him is Copper Coleson’s Ghost, published in 1930 by L. C. Page & Company and illustrated by Harold James Cue.

Available records also link him to shorter fiction in The Youth’s Companion, including the story "Jimmy’s Job." Library listings and book catalogs additionally associate his name with McAllister and His Double, though biographical details about his life have proven hard to verify.

Because so little reliable personal information is readily documented online, Hendrick is best remembered today through the stories themselves: lively adventures aimed at younger readers, with mystery, action, and a strong sense of period atmosphere.