Craig Kennedy

Professor Craig Kennedy is a fictional detective created by Arthur B. Reeve.

Description
Kennedy is a scientist detective at Columbia University similar to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Thorndyke. He uses his knowledge of chemistry and psychoanalysis to solve cases, and uses exotic (at the time) devices in his work such as lie detectors, gyroscopes, and portable seismographs. Like Dr. Watson from the Holmes tales and Dr. Jervis from the Thorndyke stories, a companion to Kennedy, reporter Walter Jameson, narrates the stories.

Publication
Kennedy first appeared in the December 1910 issue of Cosmopolitan, in "The Case of Helen Bond." He ultimately made 82 appearances in Cosmopolitan, the last coming in the August 1918 issue. Twelve stories were reprinted in the first collection, and this continued, but soon the stories were fixed up into a novel, and some were adaptations of movie serials.

He returned for many short stories in magazines as various as The Popular Magazine, Detective Story Magazine, Country Gentleman, Everybody's Magazine, and Flynn's, as well as in 26 novels. Through the 1920s, he became more of a typical detective. Craig Kennedy appeared in a number of 1930s pulp magazines, Complete Detective Novel Magazine, Dime Detective, Popular Detective, Weird Tales, and World Man Hunters, but many of these appear to be ghost-written as they lack the style and flavor of the teen-era Craig Kennedy stories. A series of six Craig Kennedy stories in early issues of Popular Detective are known to have been unsold novelettes rewritten by A. T. Locke.

Books

 * 1) The Silent Bullet (1910)
 * 2) The Poisoned Pen (1911)
 * 3) Constance Dunlap (1913)
 * 4) The Dream Doctor (1914)
 * 5) Guy Garrick (1914)
 * 6) The Death House (1914)
 * 7) The War Terror (1915)
 * 8) The Gold of the Gods (1915)
 * 9) The Exploits of Elaine (1915) adaption of movie serial
 * 10) The Social Gangster (1916)
 * 11) The Ear in the Wall (1916)
 * 12) The Romance of Elaine (1916) adaption of movie serial
 * 13) The Triumph of Elaine (1916)
 * 14) The Treasure Train (1917)
 * 15) The Adventuress (1917)
 * 16) The Panama Plot (1918)
 * 17) The Soul Scar (1919)
 * 18) The Film Mystery (1921) adaption of Houdini movie serial
 * 19) The Bacteriological Detective (1922)
 * 20) Craig Kennedy Listens In (1923)
 * 21) Atavar, the Dream Dancer (1924)
 * 22) The Fourteen Points (1925)
 * 23) The Boy Scouts' Craig Kennedy (1925)
 * 24) Craig Kennedy on the Farm (1925)
 * 25) The Radio Detective (1926)
 * 26) Pandora (1926)
 * 27) The Kidnap Club (1932)
 * 28) The Clutching Hand (1934)
 * 29) Enter Craig Kennedy (1935)
 * 30) The Stars Scream Murder (1936)

Stories

 * 1) The Case of Helen Bond (The Silent Cracksman)	Dec 1910
 * 2) The Silent Bullet	Jan 1911
 * 3) The Bacteriological Detective	Feb 1911
 * 4) The Story of The Deadly Tube	Mar 1911
 * 5) The Seismograph Adventure	Apr 1911
 * 6) The Diamond Maker	May 1911
 * 7) The Azure Ring	Jun 1911
 * 8) A Spontaneous Combustion	Jul 1911
 * 9) The Terror in the Air	Aug 1911
 * 10) The Black Hand	Sep 1911
 * 11) The Artificial Paradise (The Man Who Was Dead)	Oct 1911
 * 12) The Steel Door	Nov 1911
 * 13) The Sand-Hog (The Tunnel Mystery)	Dec 1911
 * 14) The Bacillus of Death	Jan 1912
 * 15) The Master Counterfeiter	Feb 1912
 * 16) The Firebug (The Firefiend)	Mar 1912
 * 17) The Yeggman	Apr 1912
 * 18) The Green-Goods King	May 1912
 * 19) The Poisoned Pen	May 1912
 * 20) The White Slave	Jun 1912
 * 21) The Treasure Vault	Jul 1912
 * 22) The Forger	Jul 1912
 * 23) The Unofficial Spy	Aug 1912
 * 24) The Smuggler	Sep 1912
 * 25) The Invisible Ray	Oct 1912
 * 26) The Campaign Grafter	Nov 1912
 * 27) The Kleptomaniac	Dec 1912
 * 28) The Opium Joint	Jan 1913
 * 29) The Vampire	Feb 1913
 * 30) The Death Thought	Apr 1913
 * 31) The Green Curse	Apr 1913
 * 32) The Sybarite	May 1913
 * 33) The Phantom Circuit	Jun 1913
 * 34) The Elixir of Life	Jul 1913
 * 35) The Dream Doctor	Aug 1913
 * 36) The Death House	Sep 1913
 * 37) The Submarine Mystery	Oct 1913
 * 38) The Bomb-Maker	Nov 1913
 * 39) The Ghouls	Dec 1913
 * 40) The Scientific Gunman	Jan 1914
 * 41) Guy Garrick (revised book edition of The Scientific Gunman)	1914
 * 42) The Air-Pirate	Jan 1914
 * 43) The Abduction Club	Feb 1914
 * 44) The Billionaire Baby	Feb 1914
 * 45) The Radium Robber	Mar 1914
 * 46) The Eugenic Bride	Apr 1914
 * 47) The Terrorists	May 1914
 * 48) The Dead-Line	May 1914
 * 49) The Curio Shop	Jun 1914
 * 50) The Germ Letter	Jul 1914
 * 51) The Wireless Wire-Tappers	Aug 1914
 * 52) The Family Skeleton	Sep 1914
 * 53) The Devil-Worshipers	Oct 1914
 * 54) Happy Dust	Nov 1914
 * 55) The Murder Syndicate	Dec 1914
 * 56) The Stolen War-Secret	Dec 1914
 * 57) The Diamond-Queen	Jan 1915
 * 58) The X-Ray Detective	Feb 1915
 * 59) The Tango Thief	Mar 1915
 * 60) The Supertoxin	Apr 1915
 * 61) The Sixth Sense	May 1915
 * 62) The Absolute Zero	Jun 1915
 * 63) The Sleep-Maker	Jul 1915
 * 64) The Evil Eye	Aug 1915
 * 65) The House of Death	Sep 1915
 * 66) The Demon Engine	Oct 1915
 * 67) The Social Gangster	Nov 1915
 * 68) The Voodoo Mystery	Dec 1915
 * 69) The Treasure-Train	Jan 1916
 * 70) The Truth-Detector	Mar 1916
 * 71) The Soul-Analysis	May 1916
 * 72) The Mystic Poisoner	Jun 1916
 * 73) The Phantom Destroyer	Jul 1916
 * 74) The Beauty-Mask	Aug 1916
 * 75) The Love-Meter	Sep 1916
 * 76) The Vital Principle	Oct 1916
 * 77) The Submarine Mine	Nov 1916
 * 78) The Rubber Dagger	Dec 1916
 * 79) The Gun-Runner	Jan 1917
 * 80) The Sunken Treasure	Feb 1917
 * 81) The Love-Philter (The Love Potion)	Apr 1917
 * 82) The Panama Plot	May 1917
 * 83) The Black Diamond	Jun 1917
 * 84) The Bitter Water	Jul 1917
 * 85) The Nitrate King	Aug 1917
 * 86) The Coca Gang	Oct 1917
 * 87) The Phantom Parasite	Nov 1917
 * 88) The Door of Dread	Jan 1918
 * 89) The Black Cross	Feb 1918
 * 90) The Psychic Scar	Apr 1918
 * 91) The Star-Shell	May 1918
 * 92) The Film Murder	Jun 1918
 * 93) The Film Tragedy	Jul 1918
 * 94) The Treason Trust	Jul 1918
 * 95) The Sinister Shadow	Aug 1918
 * 96) The Love-Game	Aug 1918
 * 97) The Soul Scar	Sep 1918
 * 98) The Green Death	1918
 * 99) Thicker Than Water	Sep 1923
 * 100) The Radio Detective	Oct 1923
 * 101) Dead Men Tell Tales	Oct 1923
 * 102) The Radio Wraith	Nov 1923
 * 103) The Hawk	Dec 1923
 * 104) Deep-Sea Treasure	Jan 1924
 * 105) The Jazz Addict	Jan 1924
 * 106) The Counterfeit Beauty	Feb 1924
 * 107) A Son of the North Woods	Feb 1924
 * 108) The Polar Flight of ZR-10	Mar 1924
 * 109) The Honour System	May 1924
 * 110) The Greatest Mystery	Jul 1924
 * 111) The Return of the Bon Homme Richard	Jul 1924
 * 112) TheFrozen Paper	Aug 1924
 * 113) The Elements: Air	Sep 1924
 * 114) The Ghost Chase	Sep 1924
 * 115) Synthetic Love	Sep 1924
 * 116) The Elements: Fire	Oct 1924
 * 117) The Elements: Earth	Oct 1924
 * 118) The Hypocrites	Oct 1924
 * 119) The Elements: Water	Nov 1924
 * 120) The Fumes of Folly	Nov 1924
 * 121) The Voice in the Dark	Nov 1924
 * 122) The Barn-Burner	Dec 1924
 * 123) The Compass: North	Dec 1924
 * 124) The Compass: East	Dec 1924
 * 125) The Compass: South	Jan 1925
 * 126) The Compass: West	Jan 1925
 * 127) The Six Senses: Sight	Jan 1925
 * 128) The Gas Tramp	Jan 1925
 * 129) The Six Senses: Smell	Feb 1925
 * 130) The Six Senses: Taste	Feb 1925
 * 131) The Six Senses: Touch	Feb 1925
 * 132) The Six Senses: Hearing	Feb 1925
 * 133) The Six Senses: The "Sixth" Sense	Mar 1925
 * 134) Woman's Wiles	Mar 1925
 * 135) The Long Arm	Apr 1925
 * 136) Land Poor	May 1925
 * 137) Revenge	May 1925
 * 138) Dead Beets	Aug 1925
 * 139) Harvest Home	Nov 1925
 * 140) Pandora, or: the World Tomorrow	Jan 1926
 * 141) Craig Kennedy Gets His Girl	Jul 1928
 * 142) Craig Kennedy Gets the Dope	Jul 1928
 * 143) Craig Kennedy and the Model	Aug 1928
 * 144) Craig Kennedy and the Ghost	Aug 1928
 * 145) Blood Will Tell	Sep 1928
 * 146) Radiant Doom	Oct 1928
 * 147) The Dead Line	Oct 1928
 * 148) Craig Kennedy Splits Hairs	Oct 1928
 * 149) The Christmas Case	Dec 1928
 * 150) The Mystery Ray	Feb 1929
 * 151) The Beauty Wrecker	Mar 1929
 * 152) Poisoned Music	Aug 1929
 * 153) The Crime Student	Sep 1929
 * 154) The Gigolo Mystery	Oct 1929
 * 155) The Mystery of the Phantom Voice	Nov 1929
 * 156) The House of a Hundred Murders	Dec 1929
 * 157) The Mystery in the Mire	Jan 1930
 * 158) The Mystery of the Bulawayo Diamond	Jan 1930
 * 159) The Kidnap Club	Apr 1932
 * 160) Death in the Cards	May 1932
 * 161) The Junior League Murder	Jun 1932
 * 162) Murder Under the Southern Cross	July 1932
 * 163) Murder Never Dies	Aug 1932
 * 164) Murder in Green	Sep 1932
 * 165) Murder on the Mike	Dec 1932
 * 166) Murder in the Tourist Camp	Dec 1932
 * 167) The Electric War	Sep 1933
 * 168) The Golden Grave	Oct 1933
 * 169) The Inca Dagger	Jan 1934
 * 170) Murder at Night	Aug 1934
 * 171) The Death Cry	May 1935

Adaptations
The character's name was spoofed in 1916 by Douglas Fairbanks, who played "Coke Enneday" in the cocaine comedy film and Sherlock Holmes sendup The Mystery of the Leaping Fish.

Detective Craig Kennedy was also played by Arnold Daly in the 1914 film serial The Exploits of Elaine as well as its 1915 sequel, The New Exploits of Elaine.

Herbert Rawlinson portrayed Craig Kennedy in the silent serial film The Carter Case (1919). Robert Warwick took the role in the early sound film Unmasked (1929). Jack Mulhall played Kennedy in the serial The Clutching Hand (1936) for the Weiss Brothers, who also produced the 1951 television series called Craig Kennedy, Criminologist, which was based on the same character. Donald Woods portrayed Craig Kennedy in the television series.