Arthur B. Reeve

From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Arthur B. Reeve
The Washington Times
(21 march 1920, p. 25)

Arthur Benjamin Reeve (15 october 1880 - 9 august 1936) was an American mystery writer. He is best known for creating the series character of the scientific detective Professor Craig Kennedy and his Dr. Watson-like sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter.

He also wrote some Adventures of Clare Kendall, Woman Detective (1913) and Novel Experiences of Guy Garrick, Detective (1915).

His main detective, Craig Kennedy, was often called The American Sherlock Holmes by the press, and they also called the author Arthur B. Reeve : The American Conan Doyle.

In What Are the Great Detective Stories and Why? (8 march 1922), Reeve wrote the following about Arthur Conan Doyle :

« I may as well confess that my first inspiration came from Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", followed by impressionable reading of Conan Doyle's "The Sign of the Four" and Anna Katherine Green's "The Leavenworth Case." [..] Comes Conan Doyle, the master. I believed once "The Sign of the Four" to be the masterpiece, and I believe it yet. The inspiration of "The Sign of the Four" in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is striking — the Andaman Islander an the ape, what Sherlock Holmes calls "deduction" and what Dupin calls "analysis." Holmes takes Lecoq to task rather severely in one of his adventures, but their inspiration and methods are essentially one. "A Study in Scarlet" I love; also "A Scandal in Bohemia," because of the woman in it and its comparison with "The Purloined Letter." I feel that "The Hound of the Baskervilles" rises to a very great height, and certainly one of the finest episodes in detective fiction is in Moriarty in "The Valley of Fear" and "The Final Problem. ..." »


Bibliography

Ad in the New-York Tribune
(24 august 1919, section 6, p. 6)

Craig Kennedy, Scientific Detective [1]


Adventures of Clare Kendall, Woman Detective [2]


The Novel Experiences of Guy Garrick, Detective [3]


Misc.






  1. ↑ Short stories published in Cosmopolitan, The Salt Lake Tribune and The Washington Evening Star...
  2. ↑ Short stories published in The New York Sun, The San Francisco Call and The Omaha Daily Bee...
  3. ↑ Short stories published in The Washington Herald.
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