The Silent Bullet

Professor Craig Kennedy is no ordinary detective. A university professor of chemistry with a keen interest in criminal science, he applies laboratory methods and scientific reasoning to mysteries that leave the police baffled. Assisted by his journalist friend Walter Jameson, Kennedy investigates a Wall Street broker's seemingly impossible murder in which a man is killed by a bullet no one hears fired. This case is only the beginning. Across twelve mysteries, Kennedy confronts ingenious criminals, strange deaths, scientific experiments gone wrong, mysterious poisons, artificial diamonds, and secret societies. First published in 1910, Arthur B. Reeve's The Silent Bullet introduces one of early American detective fiction's most distinctive scientific investigators. A landmark in the tradition of forensic mysteries, it is an entertaining collection for readers who enjoy classic crime fiction, ingenious puzzles, and the early days of scientific detection.