The Adventuress - Couverture rigide

Reeve, Arthur B.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 000813765X ISBN 13 : 9780008137656

Editeur : Collins Crime Club, 2017

Synopsis

Marking 100 years since publication, The Adventuress was the first full-length novel to feature ‘scientific detective’ Craig Kennedy, who was dubbed ‘the American Sherlock Holmes’ and the first fictional detective to use forensic science.

Who killed Marshall Maddox of Maddox Munitions, Inc., the inventors of the top secret telautomaton? Was his death retribution for a double life, or was it due to the covetousness of some schemer? Even Craig Kennedy is challenged by the diabolical scientific inventiveness and ruthlessness at the centre of the crime – and by Paquita, the mysterious adventuress . . .

Arthur B. Reeve (1880-1936) was a New York author and criminologist whose creation, the scientific detective Craig Kennedy, became famous as ‘the American Sherlock Holmes’. Reeve’s cutting-edge stories, newspaper serials and movies about Craig Kennedy made him the most popular detective writer of the era, and The Adventuress was his first full-length novel for Harper & Brothers, published in 1917 as part of the company’s centenary year celebrations.

This Detective Club classic is introduced by publisher David Brawn, who examines the rise and fall of Arthur B. Reeve, whose bestselling fiction was credited as introducing forensic science to real police work, yet 100 years later has been all but forgotten.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Brawn has worked for over 20 years in book publishing. He is the accredited author of four titles in the bestselling Little Instruction Book humour series, the parody A Day in the Life of Humphrey, the Downing Street Cat, and four Lord of the Rings film tie-in books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Collins Crime Club
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 000813765X
• ISBN 13: 9780008137656
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
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