One of our favorite characters is Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as The Thinking Machine, the world's most brilliant criminologist, who investigates — and reveals — that every mystery has a solution.
Collected here are many of the short stories featuring this incomparable character, available in a newly released ebook format.
The Thinking Machine by Jacques Futrelle
A Short Story Collection
Publisher: Mysterious Press
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His name is Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, but to the newspapers he is known as "The Thinking Machine." Slender, stooped, his appearance dominated by his large forehead and perpetual squint, Van Dusen spends his days in the laboratory and his nights puzzling over the details of extraordinary crimes. What seems beyond comprehension to the police is mere amusement to the professor. All things that start must go somewhere, he firmly believes, and with the application of logic, all problems can be solved.
Whether unraveling a perfect murder, investigating a case of corporate espionage, or reasoning his way out of an inescapable prison cell, Van Dusen lets no detail elude his brilliant mind.
In this highly entertaining collection, featuring many of the stories that made The Thinking Machine a national sensation, ingenious criminals and ruthless villains are no match for an egghead scientist.
— The Thinking Machine by Jacques Futrelle
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