A chemistry professor and scientist at Columbia University who used science to solve crimes, including advanced techniques and technologies such as psychoanalysis, lie detectors, gyroscopes, x-rays, and portable seismographs. Kennedy smoked a pipe, carried a revolver, was a good fighter, and a master of disguise. Kennedy lived in a neat bachelor apartment on the Heights, not far from the university, with his old friend and college roommate Walter Jameson. Jameson was a newspaper crime reporter for the Star who assisted Kennedy on cases. He aided Elaine Dodge in tracking down The Clutching Hand, who killed her father. He also tracked down Wu Fang and The Clutching Hand II.
First Appearance Cosmopolitan (“The Case of Helen Bond”, December 1910)
First Publisher Hearst Corporation
Appearance List Novels released before 1927: The Silent Bullet (1910), The Poisoned Pen (1911), Constance Dunlap (1913), The Dream Doctor (1914), Guy Garrick (1914), The Death House (1914), The War Terror (1915), The Gold of the Gods (1915), The Exploits of Elaine (1915) adaption of movie serial, The Social Gangster (1916), The Ear in the Wall (1916), The Romance of Elaine (1916) adaption of movie serial, The Triumph of Elaine (1916), The Treasure Train (1917), The Adventuress (1917), The Panama Plot (1918), The Soul Scar (1919), The Film Mystery (1921) adaption of Houdini movie serial, The Bacteriological Detective (1922), Craig Kennedy Listens In (1923), Atavar, the Dream Dancer (1924), The Fourteen Points (1925), The Boy Scouts’ Craig Kennedy (1925), Craig Kennedy on the Farm (1925), The Radio Detective (1926), Pandora (1926). Short stories ran in Cosmopolitan (82 appearances, 1910-1918), The Popular Magazine, Detective Story Magazine, Country Gentleman, Everybody’s Magazine, Flynn’s, World Man Hunters, Complete Detective Novel Magazine, Dime Detective, Popular Detective, Weird Tales. Films include: The Exploits of Elaine (1914), The New Exploits of Elaine (1915), The Romance of Elaine (1915), The Carter Case (1919), The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand (1936).
Sample Read The Treasure-Train (The Craig Kennedy Stories) [Internet Archive]
Description A chemistry professor and scientist at Columbia University who used science to solve crimes, including advanced techniques and technologies such as psychoanalysis, lie detectors, gyroscopes, x-rays, and portable seismographs. Kennedy smoked a pipe, carried a revolver, was a good fighter, and a master of disguise. Kennedy lived in a neat bachelor apartment on the Heights, not far from the university, with his old friend and college roommate Walter Jameson. Jameson was a newspaper crime reporter for the Star who assisted Kennedy on cases. He aided Elaine Dodge in tracking down The Clutching Hand, who killed her father. He also tracked down Wu Fang and The Clutching Hand II.
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