The Thinking Machine: 50 Novelettes & Short Stories Collection - Mystery & Detective Fiction for Book Clubs & Nighttime Reading
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This books collects the 50 short stories and novelettes featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, who solves a variety of different mysteries with his friend and companion, Hutchinson Hatch, reporter of a fictional newspaper called The Daily New Yorker. The professor is known as "The Thinking Machine", solving problems by the remorseless application of logic. This nickname was given to him after his winning of a match against the fictional chess champion of the day, Tschaikowsky, in a demonstration to show the power of applying pure logic.
Customer Reviews
I first read THE THINKING MACHINE in the early 1960s when I purchased it through my elementary school's Scholastic Book Club. I found the stories fascinating but was puzzled by not finding more of Jacques Futrelle's work in the library. Eventually I read that he had been a victim of the TITANIC.Coming across this collection has been a real pleasure. While dated and sometimes requiring some twisted logic or solutions only possible in their day, the stories make for a nice way to pass time while in between tasks.The puzzles grab one's attention from the start and move swiftly to their resolution.Looking forward to acquiring more in this series.
