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Arthur B. Reeve (1880-1936) was a New York journalist whose stories, newspaper serials and movies made him the most popular American detective story author of the 1910s and 20s. His creation, the ‘scientific detective’ Craig Kennedy, was labelled ‘the American Sherlock Holmes’, and The Adventuress was his first full-length novel, published by Harper & Brothers in 1917, the company’s centenary year.