Wikipedia / Craig Kennedy
Wikipedia / Craig Kennedy
Professor Craig Kennedy is a fictional detective created by Arthur B. Reeve.
Description
Kennedy is a scientist detective at Columbia University similar to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Thorndyke. He uses his knowledge of chemistry and psychoanalysis to solve cases, and uses exotic (at the time) devices in his work such as lie detectors, gyroscopes, and portable seismographs. Like Dr. Watson from the Holmes tales and Dr. Jervis from the Thorndyke stories, a companion to Kennedy, reporter Walter Jameson, narrates the stories.
Publication
Kennedy first appeared in the December 1910 issue of Cosmopolitan, in "The Case of Helen Bond." He ultimately made 82 appearances in Cosmopolitan, the last coming in the August 1918 issue. Twelve stories were reprinted in the first collection, and this continued, but soon the stories were fixed up into a novel, and some were adaptations of movie serials.
He returned for many short stories in magazines as various as The Popular Magazine, Detective Story Magazine, Country Gentleman, Everybody's Magazine, and Flynn's, as well as in 26 novels. Through the 1920s, he became more of a typical detective. Craig Kennedy appeared in a number of 1930s pulp magazines, Complete Detective Novel Magazine, Dime Detective, Popular Detective, Weird Tales, and World Man Hunters, but many of these appear to be ghost-written as they lack the style and flavor of the teen-era Craig Kennedy stories. A series of six Craig Kennedy stories in early issues of Popular Detective are known to have been unsold novelettes rewritten by A. T. Locke.
Books
The Silent Bullet (1910)
The Poisoned Pen (1911)
Constance Dunlap (1913)
The Dream Doctor (1914)
Guy Garrick (1914)
The Death House (1914)
The War Terror (1915)
The Gold of the Gods (1915)
The Exploits of Elaine (1915) adaption of movie serial
The Social Gangster (1916)
The Ear in the Wall (1916)
The Romance of Elaine (1916) adaption of movie serial
The Triumph of Elaine (1916)
The Treasure Train (1917)
The Adventuress (1917)
The Panama Plot (1918)
The Soul Scar (1919)
The Film Mystery (1921) adaption of Houdini movie serial
The Bacteriological Detective (1922)
Craig Kennedy Listens In (1923)
Atavar, the Dream Dancer (1924)
The Fourteen Points (1925)
The Boy Scouts' Craig Kennedy (1925)
Craig Kennedy on the Farm (1925)
The Radio Detective (1926)
Pandora (1926)
The Kidnap Club (1932)
The Clutching Hand (1934)
Enter Craig Kennedy (1935)
The Stars Scream Murder (1936)
Stories
The Case of Helen Bond (The Silent Cracksman) Dec 1910
The Silent Bullet Jan 1911
The Bacteriological Detective Feb 1911
The Story of The Deadly Tube Mar 1911
The Seismograph Adventure Apr 1911
The Diamond Maker May 1911
The Azure Ring Jun 1911
A Spontaneous Combustion Jul 1911
The Terror in the Air Aug 1911
The Black Hand Sep 1911
The Artificial Paradise (The Man Who Was Dead) Oct 1911
The Steel Door Nov 1911
The Sand-Hog (The Tunnel Mystery) Dec 1911
The Bacillus of Death Jan 1912
The Master Counterfeiter Feb 1912
The Firebug (The Firefiend) Mar 1912
The Yeggman Apr 1912
The Green-Goods King May 1912
The Poisoned Pen May 1912
The White Slave Jun 1912
The Treasure Vault Jul 1912
The Forger Jul 1912
The Unofficial Spy Aug 1912
The Smuggler Sep 1912
The Invisible Ray Oct 1912
The Campaign Grafter Nov 1912
The Kleptomaniac Dec 1912
The Opium Joint Jan 1913
The Vampire Feb 1913
The Death Thought Apr 1913
The Green Curse Apr 1913
The Sybarite May 1913
The Phantom Circuit Jun 1913
The Elixir of Life Jul 1913
The Dream Doctor Aug 1913
The Death House Sep 1913
The Submarine Mystery Oct 1913
The Bomb-Maker Nov 1913
The Ghouls Dec 1913
The Scientific Gunman Jan 1914
Guy Garrick (revised book edition of The Scientific Gunman) 1914
The Air-Pirate Jan 1914
The Abduction Club Feb 1914
The Billionaire Baby Feb 1914
The Radium Robber Mar 1914
The Eugenic Bride Apr 1914
The Terrorists May 1914
The Dead-Line May 1914
The Curio Shop Jun 1914
The Germ Letter Jul 1914
The Wireless Wire-Tappers Aug 1914
The Family Skeleton Sep 1914
The Devil-Worshipers Oct 1914
Happy Dust Nov 1914
The Murder Syndicate Dec 1914
The Stolen War-Secret Dec 1914
The Diamond-Queen Jan 1915
The X-Ray Detective Feb 1915
The Tango Thief Mar 1915
The Supertoxin Apr 1915
The Sixth Sense May 1915
The Absolute Zero Jun 1915
The Sleep-Maker Jul 1915
The Evil Eye Aug 1915
The House of Death Sep 1915
The Demon Engine Oct 1915
The Social Gangster Nov 1915
The Voodoo Mystery Dec 1915
The Treasure-Train Jan 1916
The Truth-Detector Mar 1916
The Soul-Analysis May 1916
The Mystic Poisoner Jun 1916
The Phantom Destroyer Jul 1916
The Beauty-Mask Aug 1916
The Love-Meter Sep 1916
The Vital Principle Oct 1916
The Submarine Mine Nov 1916
The Rubber Dagger Dec 1916
The Gun-Runner Jan 1917
The Sunken Treasure Feb 1917
The Love-Philter (The Love Potion) Apr 1917
The Panama Plot May 1917
The Black Diamond Jun 1917
The Bitter Water Jul 1917
The Nitrate King Aug 1917
The Coca Gang Oct 1917
The Phantom Parasite Nov 1917
The Door of Dread Jan 1918
The Black Cross Feb 1918
The Psychic Scar Apr 1918
The Star-Shell May 1918
The Film Murder Jun 1918
The Film Tragedy Jul 1918
The Treason Trust Jul 1918
The Sinister Shadow Aug 1918
The Love-Game Aug 1918
The Soul Scar Sep 1918
The Green Death 1918
Thicker Than Water Sep 1923
The Radio Detective Oct 1923
Dead Men Tell Tales Oct 1923
The Radio Wraith Nov 1923
The Hawk Dec 1923
Deep-Sea Treasure Jan 1924
The Jazz Addict Jan 1924
The Counterfeit Beauty Feb 1924
A Son of the North Woods Feb 1924
The Polar Flight of ZR-10 Mar 1924
The Honour System May 1924
The Greatest Mystery Jul 1924
The Return of the Bon Homme Richard Jul 1924
TheFrozen Paper Aug 1924
The Elements: Air Sep 1924
The Ghost Chase Sep 1924
Synthetic Love Sep 1924
The Elements: Fire Oct 1924
The Elements: Earth Oct 1924
The Hypocrites Oct 1924
The Elements: Water Nov 1924
The Fumes of Folly Nov 1924
The Voice in the Dark Nov 1924
The Barn-Burner Dec 1924
The Compass: North Dec 1924
The Compass: East Dec 1924
The Compass: South Jan 1925
The Compass: West Jan 1925
The Six Senses: Sight Jan 1925
The Gas Tramp Jan 1925
The Six Senses: Smell Feb 1925
The Six Senses: Taste Feb 1925
The Six Senses: Touch Feb 1925
The Six Senses: Hearing Feb 1925
The Six Senses: The "Sixth" Sense Mar 1925
Woman's Wiles Mar 1925
The Long Arm Apr 1925
Land Poor May 1925
Revenge May 1925
Dead Beets Aug 1925
Harvest Home Nov 1925
Pandora, or: the World Tomorrow Jan 1926
Craig Kennedy Gets His Girl Jul 1928
Craig Kennedy Gets the Dope Jul 1928
Craig Kennedy and the Model Aug 1928
Craig Kennedy and the Ghost Aug 1928
Blood Will Tell Sep 1928
Radiant Doom Oct 1928
The Dead Line Oct 1928
Craig Kennedy Splits Hairs Oct 1928
The Christmas Case Dec 1928
The Mystery Ray Feb 1929
The Beauty Wrecker Mar 1929
Poisoned Music Aug 1929
The Crime Student Sep 1929
The Gigolo Mystery Oct 1929
The Mystery of the Phantom Voice Nov 1929
The House of a Hundred Murders Dec 1929
The Mystery in the Mire Jan 1930
The Mystery of the Bulawayo Diamond Jan 1930
The Kidnap Club Apr 1932
Death in the Cards May 1932
The Junior League Murder Jun 1932
Murder Under the Southern Cross July 1932
Murder Never Dies Aug 1932
Murder in Green Sep 1932
Murder on the Mike Dec 1932
Murder in the Tourist Camp Dec 1932
The Electric War Sep 1933
The Golden Grave Oct 1933
The Inca Dagger Jan 1934
Murder at Night Aug 1934
The Death Cry May 1935
Adaptations
The character's name was spoofed in 1916 by Douglas Fairbanks, who played "Coke Ennyday" in the cocaine comedy film and Sherlock Holmes sendup The Mystery of the Leaping Fish.
Detective Craig Kennedy was also played by Arnold Daly in the 1914 film serial The Exploits of Elaine as well as its 1915 sequel, The New Exploits of Elaine.
Herbert Rawlinson portrayed Craig Kennedy in the silent serial film The Carter Case (1919). Robert Warwick took the role in the early sound film Unmasked (1929). Jack Mulhall played Kennedy in the serial The Clutching Hand (1936) for the Weiss Brothers, who also produced the 1951 television series Craig Kennedy, Criminologist, which was based on the same character. Donald Woods portrayed Craig Kennedy in the television series.
See also
References
External links
Gutenberg contains a selection of his works.