# Dr. James Gregory — Craig Kennedy Stories character guide

> Dr. James Gregory in Craig Kennedy Stories by Arthur B. Reeve.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Gregory, Dr. Gregory

**First appearance:** 0003-the-bacteriological-detective

## Snapshot

The physician Mrs. Close blames for her ruined face, whose bacteriological work may hide something far less careless than malpractice.

## Who they are

Dr. Gregory stands at the center of the Close affair as the named defendant, a man whose professional reputation and laboratory methods are suddenly the object of Kennedy's scientific suspicion. He insists on the innocence of ordinary error, but the bacteriological angle gives his work a sinister edge that a malpractice suit alone would not explain. His refusal to be merely the careless doctor of Mrs. Close's complaint is what pushes the investigation past gossip and into the realm of deliberate crime.

## In the story

### [The Deadly Tube](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/craig_kennedy_stories_se/chapters/the-deadly-tube)

Demonstrates his careful X-ray apparatus and defends his treatments.

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