Arthur Benjamin Reeve (October 15 1880 - August 9 1936) was an American mystery writer. He is best known for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, sometimes called "The American Sherlock Holmes," and his Dr Watson-like sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter, in eighteen detective novels. The bulk of Reeve's fame is based on the 82 Craig Kennedy stories, published in Cosmopolitan magazine between 1910 and 1918. These were collected in book form; with the third collection, the short stories were stitched together into pseudo-novels. The 12-volume Craig Kennedy Stories came out in 1918; it reissued Reeve's books-to-date as a matched set. In the 1930's, Reeve rejuvenated his career by becoming an anti-rackets crusader. He had a national radio show from July 1930 to March 1931; he published a history of the rackets called The Golden Age of Crime; and the focus of his Craig Kennedy stories completed the transition from "scientific detective" work to a racket-busting milieu. He graduated from Princeton and attended New York Law School. He worked as an editor and journalist before Craig Kennedy propelled him to national fame in 1911. Raised in Brooklyn, he lived most of his professional life at various addresses near the Long Island Sound. In 1932, he moved to Trenton to be nearer his alma mater, Princeton. Some of his stories include:
- The Black Hand 1911
- The Campaign Grafter
- Constance Dunlap
- The Deadly Tube 1911
- The Dream Doctor 1914
- The Ear In The Wall 1916
- The Exploits of Elaine 1915
- The Film Mystery 1921
- Gold of the Gods 1915
- Guy Garrick
- The Invisible Ray
- The Poisoned Pen 1912
- The Romance of Elaine 1916 (the sequel to The Exploits of Elaine)
- The Silent Bullet 1912
- The Steel Door
- The Treasure-Train 1917
- The War Terror 1915
- The White Slave
- The Grim Game 1919
- The Golden Age of Crime 1931
- The Stars Scream Murder 1936
