Arthur Benjamin Reeve
American journalist (1880-1936) · United States · On the map · Journalists · Died at 55
Arthur Benjamin Reeve was an American mystery writer. He is known best for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, sometimes called "The American Sherlock Holmes", and Kennedy's Dr. Watson-like sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter, for 18 detective novels.
Arthur Benjamin Reeve is read about 8 times a day, in 6 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 20 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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- Leopold Wharton Directed The Exploits of Elaine (1914)
Pearl White Also in The Exploits of Elaine (1914)
Theodore Wharton Directed The New Exploits of Elaine (1915)
Louis Weiss Produced The Mysterious Airman and Unmasked
Harry Houdini Arthur wrote The Master Mystery (1919)
James Cruze Directed Terror Island (1920)
Charles Pathé Produced The Hidden Hand (1917)
Marguerite Marsh Also in The Master Mystery and The Carter Case
Louis J. Gasnier Directed The Exploits of Elaine (1914)
Arthur Charles Miller Directed The House of Hate (1918)
Robert D. Walker Also in The Mysterious Airman (1928)
Edgar Lewis Directed Unmasked (1929)
Albert Herman Directed The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand (1936)
Harry Revier Directed The Mysterious Airman (1928)
William F. Haddock Directed The Carter Case (1919)Peggy Shanor Also in The House of Hate and The Mystery Mind
William James Craft Directed The Radio Detective (1926)
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Reeve is famous mostly for the 82 Craig Kennedy stories, published in Cosmopolitan magazine between 1910 and 1918. These were collected in book form; with the third collection, the short stories were published grouped together as episodic novels. The 12-volume publication Craig Kennedy Stories was released during 1918; it reissued Reeve's books-to-date as a matched set.
