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The Poisoned Pen

Arthur B. Reeve

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This book contains twelve of Professor Kennedy's adventures. The interesting thing about these stories is Kennedy uses newly discovered science from his time period, which we take for granted today. The title story features the use of special inks. One which disappears in sunlight and one which appears in sunlight, so that the text on a note found in possession of a murder victim changes completely, making it almost impossible for Kennedy to track down the killer. Each story features a fascinating look at life in the early 20th century, and even includes some action along the way.
revolutionists would have furnished material for a story in themselves. But nowhere had they any word of Kazanovitch, until I visited a Polish artist who was illustrating his stories. He had been there, looking very worn and tired, and had talked vacantly about the sketches which the artist had showed him. After that I lost all trace of him again. It was nearly noon as I hurried to meet Craig at Kharkoff's.

Imagine my surprise to see Kazanovitch already there, seated in the wrecked office, furiously smoking cigarettes and showing evident signs of having something very disturbing on his mind. The moment he caught sight of me, he hurried forward.

"Is Professor Kennedy coming soon?" he inquired eagerly. "I was going up to his laboratory, but I called up Nevsky, and she said he would be here at noon." Then he put his hand up to my ear and whispered, "I have found out who it was who shadowed Kharkoff."

"Who?" I asked, saying nothing of my long search of the morning.

"His name is Revalenko—Feodor Revalenko. I saw him standing across the street in front of the house last night after you had gone. When Kharkoff left, he followed him. I hurried out quietly and followed both of them. Then the explosion came. This man slipped down a narrow street as soon as he saw Kharkoff fall. As people were running to Kharkoff's assistance, I did the same. He saw me following him and ran, and I ran, too, and overtook him. Mr. Jameson, when I looked into his face I could not believe it. Revalenko—he is one of the most ardent members of our organisation. He would not tell me why he had followed Kharkoff. I could make him confess nothing. But I am sure he is an agent provocateur of the Russian government, that he is secretly giving away the plans that we are making, everything. We have a plot on now—perhaps he has informed them of that. Of course he denied setting the bomb or trying to poison

Janet 06/16/2024
I'm a fan of early detective stories, so this short story collection was immediately downloaded from FadedPage. It is interesting, mainly because of the "scientific detective" who is Reeve's hero. He is the ultimate "jack of all trades", utilizing new camera techniques, audio recording, the forerunn
Christian 01/25/2023
The American Sherlock Holmes.
Susan 12/21/2021
Professor Craig Kennedy investigates while Walter Jameson, reporter, assists

1.The Poisoned Pen - Craig Kennedy is employed by Senator Adrian Willard to prove the innocence of Dr Dixon in the death of actress Vera Lytton.
2.The Yeggman - the president of Standard Burglary Insurance Company requests th
Reading Cat 12/19/2018
A collection of short stories from the American version, so they say, of Sherlock Holmes.

To be honest, I don't care for the original Doyle stories--they're very much gimmick and very little character. Modern iterations of the characters are much more engaging.

However, even compared to the rather d
Annie 08/17/2018
This is the first short story book I have listened to. There were 9 or 10 stories. Though I did enjoy 3 a lot, the other 6/7 I found hard to follow or if I could follow them the ending was dull and seemed rushed.
Mary 08/29/2017
An interesting array of mystery stories:

As each story had its own mystery there was always something new to ponder. This book was quite interesting with all of the older scientific methods he used in each tale.
Allison 05/05/2017
I really liked this, it was light and fun. It tried to be Sherlock Holmes and while it fell a little short of that I still liked it.

Sometimes the science explanations get a little long-winded, I must have tuned out a whole paragraph of The Campaign Grafter because Reeve just went on about processes

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