Classic Tales Of Jacques Futrelle: The Thinking Machine: v.1 (The Classic Tales of Jacques Futrelle: The Thinking Machine)

JACQUES FUTRELLE (1875-1912) is widely considered the American Sherlock Holmes for his series of stories about Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen who is better known as The Thinking Machine. Van Dusen a master of logic believed he could think himself out of any situation-and solve any crime-through the use of his immense intellect. Through dozens of stories The Thinking Machine solved locked-room puzzles kidnappings and more murders than can be easily counted proving again and again that brain-power is the answer to any problem.