Arthur B. Reeve
writer
- Birth name:
- Arthur Benjamin Reeve
- Born:
- 1880-10-15, Patchogue, Long Island, New York, USA
- Died:
- 1936-08-09, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
- Professions:
- writer
Biography
Born within earshot of Atlantic surf on 15 October 1880, Arthur B. Reeve grew up in Patchogue, Long Island, and soon traded salt air for ink. Between clattering typewriter keys he conjured “Craig Kennedy, the scientific detective,” whose sleuthing crackled across the pages of Cosmopolitan long before television existed. When Hollywood beckoned, Reeve shipped his cerebral hero west: The Carter Case (1919) and The Tiger’s Trail (1919) let silent-film audiences watch chemistry and logic unmask villains, while The Radio Detective (1926) married Marconi’s miracle to whodunits, turning sound waves into clues. Off-screen, he shared life’s plot with Margaret Allen Wilson. The final chapter closed 9 August 1936 in Trenton, New Jersey, but the reels and reprints still keep his fingerprints on the genre.
