The Silent Bullet: Stories of Scientific Detection
Arthur B. Reeve
Jul 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Craig Kennedy, professor of chemistry at Columbia, solves crimes with a lie detector, a seismograph, a spectroscope and a portable X-ray, and explains the apparatus as he goes. Reeve wrote eighty-two of these and was called the American Conan Doyle; half the instruments here did not yet exist in a police laboratory anywhere, and within twenty years most of them did. Fifty-six plates from Thomas Eakins and James McNeill Whistler and their contemporaries, spanning 1856 to 1921, supply the period's faces, interiors and quiet still lifes that a laboratory detective story needs.
Craig Kennedy, professor of chemistry at Columbia, solves crimes with a lie detector, a seismograph, a spectroscope and a portable X-ray, and explains the apparatus as he goes. Reeve wrote eighty-two of these and was called the American Conan Doyle; half the instruments here did not yet exist in ...
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Arthur B. Reeve (1880–1936) was an American author who created the scientific detective Craig Kennedy, appearing in periodicals such as Cosmopolitan and in novels like The Silent Bullet (1912). His other books include Gold of the Gods, The Treasure-Train, and Guy Garrick.
Arthur B. Reeve (1880–1936) was an American author who created the scientific detective Craig Kennedy, appearing in periodicals such as Cosmopolitan and in novels like The Silent Bullet (1912). His other books include Gold of the Gods, The Treasure-Train, and Guy Garrick.
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