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Arthur B. Reeve


Born
in The United States
October 15, 1880

Died
August 09, 1936

Genre
Mystery


Arthur Benjamin Reeve (October 15, 1880 - August 9, 1936) was an American mystery writer. He is best known for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, sometimes called "The American Sherlock Holmes", and Kennedy's Dr. Watson-like sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter, in 18 detective novels. The bulk of Reeve's fame is based on the 82 Craig Kennedy stories, published in Cosmopolitan magazine between 1910 and 1918. These were collected in book form; with the third collection, the short stories were stitched together into pseudo-novels. The 12-volume Craig Kennedy Stories were released in 1918; it reissued Reeve's books-to-date as a matched set. ...more

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Average rating: 3.4 · 1,219 ratings · 257 reviews · 187 distinct works • Similar authors
The Silent Bullet
3.42 avg rating — 208 ratings — published 1910 — 145 editions
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The Best Ghost Stories
3.08 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 1919 — 61 editions
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The Film Mystery
3.42 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1921 — 100 editions
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The Poisoned Pen
3.36 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1911 — 11 editions
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The Exploits of Elaine
3.37 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1915 — 13 editions
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Craig Kennedy, Scientific D...
3.47 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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Constance Dunlap
3.47 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1913 — 5 editions
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The Dream Doctor (Craig Ken...
3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1914 — 7 editions
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The Master Mystery
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2.74 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1919 — 74 editions
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The Craig Kennedy Scientifi...
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The Silent Bullet The Poisoned Pen The Dream Doctor (Craig Ken... The War Terror The Social Gangster The Treasure Train The Ear in the Wall
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“Yes, it’s impossible, just as it is impossible for the regular detectives to antagonize the newspapers. Scotland Yard found that out in the Crippen case.”
― Arthur B. Reeve, The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective Megapack: 25 Classic Tales of Detection!
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“This is my ‘electric ear’—in other words the dictograph, used, I am told, by the Secret Service of the United States. Wait, in a moment you will hear Gennaro come”
― Arthur B. Reeve, The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective Megapack: 25 Classic Tales of Detection!
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“Spontaneous human combustion, or catacausis ebriosus,’” began Craig, “‘is one of the baffling human scientific mysteries. Indeed, there can be no doubt but that individuals have in some strange and inexplicable manner caught fire and been partially or almost wholly consumed.”
― Arthur B. Reeve, The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective Megapack: 25 Classic Tales of Detection!
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