Classic Novels - THE CRAIG KENNEDY MYSTERIES

Arthur B. Reeve

• 13 maart 2014
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Samenvatting:

Professor Craig Kennedy is a character created by Arthur B. Reeve.

Kennedy is a scientist detective at Columbia University similar to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Thorndyke. He uses his knowledge of chemistry and psychoanalysis to solve cases, and uses exotic (at the time) devices in his work such as lie detectors, gyroscopes, and portable seismographs.

He first appeared in the December 1910 issue of Cosmopolitan, in "The Case of Helen Bond." He ultimately made 82 appearances in Cosmopolitan, the last coming in the August 1918 issue. He returned for many short stories in magazines as various as The Popular Magazine, Detective Story Magazine, Country Gentleman, Everybody's Magazine, Flynn's and World Man Hunters, as well as in 26 novels. Through the 1920s, he became more of a typical detective. Craig Kennedy appeared in a number of 1930s pulp magazines, Complete Detective Novel Magazine, Dime Detective, Popular Detective, Weird Tales, and others, but many of these appear to be ghost-written as they lack the style and flavor of the teen-era Craig Kennedy stories. A series of six Craig Kennedy stories in early issues of Popular Detective are known to have been unsold novelettes rewritten by A. T. Locke.

The character's name was spoofed by Douglas Fairbanks in 1916, who played "Coke Enneday" in the cocaine comedy film and Sherlock Holmes send-up, The Mystery of the Leaping Fish.

There is a 1951 TV series called Craig Kennedy, Criminologist, which was based on the same character. Donald Woods portrayed Craig Kennedy in the series.

Included in this collection:

The Silent Bullet

The War Terror

The Treasure Train

Guy Garrick

The Social Gangster

The Exploits of Elaine

The Romance of Elaine

The Poison Pen

The Ear in the Wall

Gold of the Gods

The Dream Doctor