Craig Kennedy, a chemistry professor, and his newspaper friend Walter Jameson of the Star take on twelve cases first published between 1911 and 1913. A poisoned letter, a safe-cracking yeggman, a germ murder, a firebug, a confidence king, a tunnel sand-hog and a forger all yield to chemical tests, laboratory instruments and Kennedy’s skill at exposing frauds.
Popular American scientific-detective stories that capture the gadget enthusiasm of the years before the First World War. Download the free EPUB.