Jacques Futrelle's THE THINKING MACHINE, now in eBook!

We’re pleased to announce a new installment to our series of classic mystery eBooks, professionally proofread and formatted to ensure readability on any device. The newest addition is Jacques Futrelle’s The Thinking Machine, a collection of mystery stories featuring the brilliant detective, Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen!

A scientist by day, by night Van Dusen dedicates himself to solving the most puzzling crimes. Together with his friend and companion Hutchinson Hatch, a reporter, the egghead detective arms himself with logic alone to face off against ingenious criminals and ruthless villains. This collection features many of the stories that made “The Thinking Machine”—Van Dusen’s nickname—into a national sensation.

Jacques Futrelle was an American journalist and mystery author. He published the first Van Dusen story in 1905, and published often in the Saturday Evening Post and the Boston American before dying in the sinking of the Titanic.

Of the Van Dusen tales, Harlan Ellison had this to say: “There is only one reason to read these stories. Joy. Unbridled, unalloyed, unfettered pleasure. Joy.”

Check out Futrelle’s author page here.

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