Arthur Benjamin Reeve

Arthur Benjamin Reeve (born October 15, 1880 in Patchogue , New York , † August 9, 1936 in Trenton , New Jersey ) was an American journalist and writer .

Life

Reeve spent his childhood and youth in Brooklyn . After attending school there, he studied law at Princeton University and later moved to New York Law School . After graduating, he returned and lived in various places on Long Island Sound until 1932 . Reeve earned his living as a journalist, but tried to establish himself as a writer during this time.

The public as well as literary critics liked to call Reeve the “American Sherlock Holmes”. One of the reasons for this was its protagonist, Professor Craig Kennedy , a chemist who - supported by journalist Walter Jameson - ingeniously solves crimes in over eighty stories. Craig Kennedy has often been compared to Doyles Sherlock Holmes and Freemans Dr. Thorndyke .

In 1932, Reeve settled in Trenton to be a little closer to his alma mater Princeton. He died ten weeks before his 56th birthday on August 9, 1936 and found his final resting place there.

Works (selection)

Craig Kennedy series

• The exploits of Elaine . 1915.
• The silent billet . 1912.
• The stars scream murder . 1936.
• The war was terror. Further adventures of Craig Kennedy . 1915.

other novels

• Constance Dunlap. Woman detective . 1916.
• Guy Garrick . 1914.

Film adaptations

• 1951 Craig Kennedy, criminologist . TV series.

literature

• Armin Arnold u. a. (Ed.): Reclams Kriminalromanführer . Reclam, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-15-010278-2 , p. 291.
• John Locke (Ed.): From ghouls to gangsters. The career of Arthur B. Reeve . Off-Trail Publ., Elkhorn, Calif. 2007,

1. 2007, ISBN 0-9786-8365-X .
2. 2007, ISBN 0-9786-8366-8 .

• Otto Penzler: Detectionary. A biographical dictionary of leading characters in detective and mystery fiction . Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY 1977, ISBN 0-87951-041-2 .