Jacques Futrelle's "The Thinking Machine": The Enigmatic

Jacques Futrelle's "The Thinking Machine": The Enigmatic Problems of Prof. Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S., M. D., M. D. S. (Modern Library Classics)

This irascible genius, this diminutive egghead scientist, known to the world as â€œThe Thinking Machine,â€ is no less than the newly rediscovered literary link between Sherlock Holmes and Nero Wolfe: Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, whoâ€”with only the power of ratiocinationâ€”unravels problems of outrageous criminous activity in dazzlingly impossible settings. He can escape from the inescapable death-row â€œCell 13.â€ He can fathom why the young woman chopped off her own ï¬nger. He can solve the anomaly of the phone that could not speak. These twenty-three Edwardian-era adventures prove (as The Thinking Machine reiterates) that â€œtwo and two make four, not sometimes, but all the time.â€
Country USA
Brand RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
Manufacturer Modern Library
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2003-12-30
EANs 9780812970142

Jacques Futrelle's "The Thinking Machine": The Enigmatic Problems of Prof. Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S., M. D., M. D. S. (Modern Library Classics)