The Romance of Elaine [sequel to "Exploits of Elaine]

Craig Kennedy, Scientific Detective #10

by Arthur B. Reeve

Join Elaine on her daring adventures as she fights crime and solves mysteries in this thrilling sequel to the popular Exploits of Elaine. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

364 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1916

About the author

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 Kennedy's Dr. Watson-like sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter, in 18 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 were released in 1918; it reissued Reeve's books-to-date as a matched set.

Reviews

[Ellen Hamilton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yes, I read this one right after The Exploits of Elaine because of Craig Kennedy's romance with Elaine. I wanted to see what new trials the overly ambitious author would put them through. This set of adventures was even worse than the previous one. Any person with average intelligence would have realized things that Jameson and even Elaine failed to perceive. They were good friends with the main villain without any doubts about him and they never let themselves guess who their guardian angel was when Kennedy left them on their own for a bit. The suspense was good though and overall, I enjoyed reading about both -Elaine's exploits and romance .

[Carol Palmer · Rating 4 out of 5]

What otherwise would be just a silly melodramatic "Perils of Pauline" type story is saved (for me) by the introduction of inventions that came to fruition many, many years later. This book was published in 1916 and included two "inventions" that stood out above the others mentioned. Of course, those inventions were merely dreams in 1916! One was the wireless remote-controlled torpedo and the other was the fax machine. Reeve's books were full of such innovations and it's fun for me to go back 100 years and read about the visions of the future that people had back then.

[Tony Ciak · Rating 5 out of 5]

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