(Ebook) 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. by Futrelle, Jacques ISBN 9780812970142, 0812970144

(Ebook) 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. by Futrelle, Jacques ISBN 9780812970142, 0812970144

A collection of ingenious detective stories written by the early American mystery writers features the sleuthing talents of Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, the "Thinking Machine," an eccentric scientist who uses his superior intellect and unique insights to solve impossible crimes.Edited and with an Introduction by Harlan EllisonAnd now that you’ve made his acquaintance—and trust me on this, after the celebrated “Problem of Cell 1 3” you will number this contact among the most unforgettable in your life—we’ll return to the bewildering challenges to the ratiocinative intellect of The Thinking Machine in just a moment. Butfirst, these words from our sponsors:Friends, do you long for a respite from the anomie of modern detective fiction? Do you voicelessly cry out for deliverance from tea-cozy melodramas in which varicose-veined elderly matrons unravel nefarious plots among the forsythia? Do you weep, in the gentle, lonely, small hours for a world in which private eyes do not get sapped across the noggin by footpads and yeggs with lisle stockings stuffed with small change? Is your reading fare fairly fruitless? Do you feel hemmed in by homicides and henna-haired ’hoors who use the effword to the ultimate degree of shocklessness? If you tremble at my words, take heart: we offer you Escape! The sweet opportunity to fiy thee hence, to go back to Edwardian times in genteel Boston, to an era of ominous gaslight and the clatter of Hansom cabs, to the recent invention of the ’phone and the introduction of the auto cab.