The Silent Bullet

Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by James McNeill Whistler, Thomas Eakins and Louis Eilshemius. Craig Kennedy, professor of chemistry at Columbia, solves crimes with a lie detector, a seismograph, a spectroscope and a portable X-ray, and explains the apparatus as he goes. Reeve wrote eighty-two of these and was called the American Conan Doyle; half the instruments here did not yet...