The Detective Club: The Adventuress

Marking 100 years since publication, The Adventuress was the only full-length novel to feature `the American Sherlock Holmes’, Craig Kennedy, who was the first fictional detective to use forensic science.An American from Maddox Munitions, Incorporated, the owners of a new invention – the telantomaton – forms the centre round which this exciting mystery tale is built. In trying to answer the ever-present question, “”Who killed Marshall Maddox?”” the reader is tossed about a sea of conjecture by two strong main currents which continually cross and recross each other and keep him mystified till the end of the book. Scientific inventiveness, at time diabolical in its ruthlessness plays no less strong a part than does Paquita, the adventuress. Was the death of Maddox retributive for his double life or was it due to the covetousness of some schemer? It required a detective of Craig Kennedy’s acumen to discover.

Reviews of The Detective Club: The Adventuress

`Arthur B. Reeve is without question the greatest living author of scientific detective literature. Mr Reeve, as the creator of Craig Kennedy, has perhaps done more for the dissemination of science through the medium of detective stories than any other man alive. He has always kept within the strict bounds of science; the various instruments and apparatus which he describes in the detection of crime are real scientific instruments, and he has never used fictitious methods.' SCIENTIFIC DETECTIVE MONTHLY (1930)