The Silent Bullet, by Arthur B. Reeve
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The Silent Bullet, by Arthur B. Reeve
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America’s Sherlock Holmes makes histhrilling debutin this classic volume of mind-boggling mysteries Craig Kennedy is a Columbia University chemistry professor by day and New York’s premier sleuth by night. With the help of his roommate and partner in detection, newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, Kennedy uses his mastery of technology to solve the most puzzling of mysteries. In “The Deadly Tube,” he investigates a case of murder by X-ray, and in “The Terror in the Air,” he applies the scientific method to a rash of airplane accidents blamed on gyroscopes. First appearing in the pages of Cosmopolitan magazine, Craig Kennedy was one of the most popular detectives of the early twentieth century, and Arthur B. Reeve’s stories featuring the scientific sleuth were the first mysteries by an American author to gain wide readership in Great Britain. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
The Silent Bullet, by Arthur B. Reeve- Amazon Sales Rank: #692649 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-11-24
- Released on: 2015-11-24
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About the Author Arthur B. Reeve (1880–1936) was born on Long Island, New York, and attended Princeton University and New York Law School. As an editor and journalist, he covered many famous criminal cases, including Bruno Hauptmann’s trial for the abduction and murder of the Lindbergh baby. Reeve is best remembered as the creator of Professor Craig Kennedy, a scientific detective who first appeared in the pages of Cosmopolitan magazine. Kennedy was such a popular character in the early twentieth century that he became known as the “American Sherlock Holmes.”
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Long Before C.S.I. By Jon Steinhagen This collection of the earliest Craig Kennedy "mysteries" is both an exciting dip into early 20th Century reverence to science and a fascinating early paean to the type of investigation we, in the 21st Century, take for granted. If you are a fan of any of the C.S.I. television shows, the mere fact that Reeve created Craig Kennedy in 1910 should surprise you. Although not a "classic" detective in even the loosest terms of his period, whereby the detective relies on the powers of intuition, pure thinking, or the routine of casebook practices, Kennedy solves crimes by various chemical tests, blood analyses, and strange new devices that are all considered "wonders." Some of the best stories in this book may also be read as vivid adventures, such as "The Steel Door." If you're looking for the fair play "whodunit" puzzle plots often associated with Golden Age mysteries, you will be disappointed. But the Reeve stories are bar none some of the best imaginative fiction we have from the Gilded Age, and should be ripe for dramatization by the BBC or others. You will be hooked early on, but don't worry. There are other volumes of Kennedy adventures!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. CSI: the early years By Paul Roberge The book begins with a brief preface, a dialog between Professor Craig Kennedy and newspaperman/sidekick/narrator Walter Jameson. Kennedy remarks that it has always seemed strange to him that none of the large American universities are endowed with a "professorship in criminal science." He points out that the old college "ideal of pure culture" has gone out of date and that professors have become directly involved in many areas of social policy... except crime. The dozen stories that follow offer examples of how a scientist (Kennedy is a chemist) could apply his skills at detecting and defeating criminals.While Reeve is obviously trying to make a point, he is primarily a good story-teller. He doesn't over-sermonize on the need for criminal science but lets Kennedy's methods argue the case for what has become the CSI we're familiar with. Kennedy uses his scientific knowledge not only to discover and analyze evidence (a methodology practiced by Holmes among others) but also to trap the criminal. The "advanced" technology featured in the stories--microphones, seismographs, x-rays--seems commonplace to us now, but that doesn't distract from the enjoyment of the tales. In fact, Reeve's enthusiasm for the technological wonders of the nascent 20th century adds to the pleasure of these short stories.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. American Sherlock? Hardly. By Karl Janssen Craig Kennedy, Scientific Detective, was a popular character in fiction magazines of the early 20th century. At least 80 Kennedy stories by Arthur B. Reeve were published in Cosmopolitan, and he appeared in other periodicals as well. These stories were later gathered into collections and published in book form. The Silent Bullet, originally published in 1912, is the first of these collections. It contains twelve Kennedy cases, including the title selection.Kennedy is a professor of chemistry and an ardent proponent of the application of science to the solving of crimes. His sidekick Walter Jameson, a reporter for the New York Star, narrates the stories. Former college roommates, the two have continued to live together into their adult bachelorhoods, and their apartment is frequented by visitors desiring their advice on mysterious matters. This is all blatantly derivative of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, of course. Instead of Holmes’ method of deductive reasoning, however, Kennedy usually employs laboratory experimentation or utilizes some technological apparatus in solving his cases.I enjoy vintage pulp fiction, and I really wanted to like this collection, but once I got into the stories I was quite disappointed. Because Kennedy’s adventures take place about 40 years after those of Holmes, the science is a little more advanced, but still, today’s readers will find many of Kennedy’ scientific methods either faulty or just not very interesting. In a couple of cases, for example, he employs the newfangled invention known as the microphone. Thankfully, no one seems to notice the hundreds of yards of wire he strings about to make it work. In another instance he uses a light bulb and two wires to warn the police—hardly cutting edge technology. Even worse, much of the evidence he uncovers is circumstantial. Apparently in Kennedy’s time a lie detector test, to cite but one example, was enough for a conviction. The best of these stories are mediocre, the rest are just bad. They are disappointing individually, but taken as a whole they’re even more annoying because they are so repetitive. Because Kennedy is a chemist, almost every crime involves some kind of poison, and in almost every case, the most obvious suspect ends up being the guilty party. The second half of the book is a slight improvement on the first, as Reeve deviates from his monotonous template and introduces a little variety into the proceedings. In “Spontaneous Combustion,” Kennedy does the kind of blood work one might find in today’s CSI television shows, and the ending is not entirely predictable. In “Artificial Paradise,” Kennedy and Jameson ingest peyote. The latter’s description of his hallucinations is quite enjoyable, but the story is ruined by some questionable science that defies belief.Despite his exceptional intelligence, Kennedy is not as arrogant as Sherlock Holmes. In fact, Kennedy has no personality whatsoever. I don’t believe we are ever even given a physical description of Kennedy or Jameson, other than Kennedy smokes cigars. The two merely say and do the bare minimum to push the story forward. What Reeve apparently did not learn from reading Conan Doyle is that the personality quirks of the protagonist are a vital part of the story. Without them, the proceedings are dull and lifeless. Since these are some of the earliest Kennedy stories, it’s possible that Reeve improved with time and that not all of the scientific detective’s adventures are as lame as those found in The Silent Bullet. I, however, don’t intend to find out. I’d rather go back and reread The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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