HOME Popular Books Popular Audioooks Popular Textbooks Popular Freebooks More Genres

Book

Audiobook

Genres

The Great Thinking Machine

By Jacques Futrelle

Release : 2018-12-19

Genre : Mystery Short Stories, Books, Mysteries & Thrillers, British Detectives

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
Suppose you were locked into one of the most secure prisons in America at the turn of the twentieth century. You've been put into solitary confinement, with periodic inspections by the warden, whom you'd informed that you would escape in less than a week. How would you communicate with the outside, how would you smuggle in tools and weapons, and how would you finally break out?
This was the situation confronting Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, aka The Thinking Machine, in "The Problem of Cell 13," one of the most famous "locked-room" mysteries ever written. Eventually The Thinking Machine did escape, and his method is known to generations of fans. Less well known, however, is the fact that Jacques Futrelle wrote many other stories about this unique detective. This volume presents twelve tales of The Thinking Machine, adventures that concern a perfect alibi and a perfect accusation, an impossible theft of a container of radium, a precise sealed room mystery, a flaming phantom, and other "impossible" situations. Rich in Edwardian period flavor, the realistic tales anticipate many of the major developments in modern crime fiction. 

The Great Thinking Machine

By Jacques Futrelle

Release : 2018-12-19

Genre : Mystery Short Stories, Books, Mysteries & Thrillers, British Detectives

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
Suppose you were locked into one of the most secure prisons in America at the turn of the twentieth century. You've been put into solitary confinement, with periodic inspections by the warden, whom you'd informed that you would escape in less than a week. How would you communicate with the outside, how would you smuggle in tools and weapons, and how would you finally break out?
This was the situation confronting Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, aka The Thinking Machine, in "The Problem of Cell 13," one of the most famous "locked-room" mysteries ever written. Eventually The Thinking Machine did escape, and his method is known to generations of fans. Less well known, however, is the fact that Jacques Futrelle wrote many other stories about this unique detective. This volume presents twelve tales of The Thinking Machine, adventures that concern a perfect alibi and a perfect accusation, an impossible theft of a container of radium, a precise sealed room mystery, a flaming phantom, and other "impossible" situations. Rich in Edwardian period flavor, the realistic tales anticipate many of the major developments in modern crime fiction. 

advertisement

Access e-books

More By Jacques Futrelle

The Diamond Master

The Chase of the Golden Plate

The Thinking Machine on the Case

The Thinking Machine

The Victorian Mystery Megapack: 27 Classic Mystery Tales

Elusive Isabel

The Victorian Mystery Megapack

The World's Smartest Detectives

The Diamond Master

Elusive Isabel

The Jacques Futrelle Megapack

49 Tales of The Thinking Machine (49 Detective Stories Featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine")

Jacques Futrelle's "The Thinking Machine"

The Problem of Cell 13

65+ Masterpieces of Detective Fiction Classic Collection. Illustrated

The Mystery & Suspense Novella MEGAPACK®

The Detective Megapack®

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Mystery and Detective II

The Thinking Machine

49 Tales of The Thinking Machine (49 detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine")

100 classic detectives. Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Illustrated

The Diamond Master

La Machine à Penser - Tome 0

The Thinking Machine

My Lady's Garter

The Leak

Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 3

The Great Thinking Machine

Professor Augustus Van Dusen: 49 Detective Mysteries in One Edition

Works of Jacques Futrelle

The Chase of the Golden Plate

Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Vol. 4 (Mystery and Adventure)

7 best short stories by Jacques Futrelle

The Chase of the Golden Plate

Elusive Isabel

Jacques Futrelle: The Maelstrom Collection

Elusive Isabel

Il mistero della giarrettiera

The Chase of the Golden Plate

La Machine à Penser - Tome 7

Essential Novelists - Jacques Futrelle

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 11

The Diamond Master

O problema da Cela 13

Il problema della cella n. 13

La Machine à Penser - Tome 3

La Machine à Penser - Tome 4

Tales of the Thinking Machine

Elusive Isabel

The Diamond Master