He attained a measure of commercial success with adaptations of novels in English, including novels by James Fenimore Cooper (The Deerslayer and two collections of adapted "Leatherstocking Tales"), Robert Montgomery Bird (Nick of the Woods), and Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe).
Chandler dissects A. A. Milne's The Red House Mystery much as Twain tears apart Cooper's The Deerslayer, namely by revealing what is ignored, brushed over, and unrealistic.