
The Silent Bullet
Author: Arthur B. Reeve
Narrator: John Rayburn
Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: John D. Rayburn
Published: 01/24/2023
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Crime

Author: Arthur B. Reeve
Narrator: John Rayburn
Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: John D. Rayburn
Published: 01/24/2023
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Crime
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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