Arthur B. Reeve
Arthur Benjamin Reeve (* October 15, 1880 in Patchogue, New York; † August 9, 1936 in Trenton, New Jersey ) was an American journalist and writer.
Life
Reeve spent his childhood and youth in Brooklyn. After his schooling there, he studied law at Princeton University and moved to the New York Law School later. Upon successful completion, he returned and lived until 1932 at various locations of the Long Iceland sound. His livelihood earned Reeve as a journalist, but already tried at this time to establish himself as a writer.
From the public as well as of literary criticism Reeve was popularly also known as the " American Sherlock Holmes". This was due to, among others, whose protagonist Professor Craig Kennedy, a chemist who - supported by the journalist Walter Jameson - in over eighty stories in an ingenious way enlightens crime. Craig Kennedy has been compared often with Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Freeman's Thorndyke.
In 1932, Reeve himself down in Trenton, to be his alma mater Princeton little closer. He died ten weeks before his 56th birthday on 9 August 1936 and there I found his final resting place.
Works (selection)
- The Exploits of Elaine. , 1915.
- The stars scream murder. In 1936.
- Constance Dunlap. Woman detective. , 1916.
- Guy Garrick. , 1914.