The Silent Bullet, Arthur B. Reeve
The Silent Bullet, Arthur B. Reeve
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The Silent Bullet

Author: Arthur B. Reeve

Narrator: John Rayburn

Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/24/2023


Synopsis

The contents of this book stem from a series of short stories originally in Cosmopolitan magazine in the early twentieth century.University Professor Craig Kennedy was mulling over some of his theories: “It has always seemed strange to me that no one has ever endowed a professorship in criminal science in any of our large universities.”In college we had roomed together, had shared everything, even poverty, and now that Craig was a professor of chemistry and I was on the staff of the Star newspaper, we had continued the arrangement. This pairing has often been compared to the Dr. Watson association with the renowned Sherlock Holmes. My name is Walter Jameson and I argued, “Why should there be a chair in criminal science … crime is just crime … the good detective is born and bred to it.”“On the contrary,” replied Kennedy, “there is a distinct place for science in the detection of crime. We have professors of everything—why not professors of crime? I am going to apply science to the detection of crime, the same sort of methods by which you trace out the presence of a chemical, or run an unknown germ to earth.”Listen now to the first of a half dozen adventures.

About Arthur B. Reeve

Arthur Benjamin Reeve (1880–1936) was an American mystery writer. He is best known 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, in eighteen detective novels. The bulk of Reeve’s fame is based on the eighty-two Craig Kennedy stories, published in Cosmopolitan magazine between 1910 and 1918.

About John Rayburn

John Rayburn (1927–2024) was a veteran of over sixty years in broadcasting. He served as a news/sports anchor and show host, and his TV newscast achieved the largest share of audience figures of any major-market TV newscast in the nation. John was a member of the Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame. He was well suited to bring fascinating stories to life concerning the people, places, and things that combine to present lively observations of our day-to-day lives.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Elizabeth (Alaska) on December 31, 2021

When I picked this up, I did not realize it is a collection of 12 short stories originally published as a series for Cosmopolitan. As is my usual practice with short stories, I started to read them interspersed with other readings. It wasn't long before I realized they could be read one after the ot......more

Goodreads review by Tim on December 27, 2023

It is interesting to see what was cutting edge technology in the years before WWI. Ricin, radium, thermite, electric drills and furnaces, gyroscopes and aircraft. Electronic eavesdropping was possible, but not recording, and I'm not sure it would be accepted as evidence in court.......more

Goodreads review by Cody on January 27, 2023

This one was a lot of fun, and if you've read my Sherlock reviews, you'll know I love short story mysteries! The last short story in this one brought the rating down a little bit for me. It was by no means bad, but the middle had so much mathematical theory that distracted from the mystery that it w......more

Goodreads review by Zach on May 05, 2020

Silent Bullet is a series of short stories by Arthur Reeves that focuses on two roommates: Walter Jameson, the first-person narrator, and Craig Kennedy, the main detective. Jameson is a newspaper reporter, and Kennedy a professor of chemistry at Columbia University. The two have a repartee a bit lik......more

Goodreads review by Sherry on August 05, 2023

I wavered on this rating. As a rule, I like Sherlockian-type mysteries and since these were also supposed to be the "first type of criminal investigation based on scientific methods", I thought I would really enjoy them. First this is a set of 11 (?) mini mysteries based on a professor who thinks th......more