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Sherlock Holmes - The Thinking Engine by Lovegrove, James is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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March 1895. Hilary Term at Oxford. In the newly built extension to the University Galleries, Professor Quantock has put the finishing touches to a wondrous computational device which, he claims, is capable of analytical thought to rival that of the cleverest men alive. Indeed, his so-called Thinking Engine seems equal to Sherlock Holmes himself in its deductive powers. To prove his point, Quantock programmes his machine to solve a murder in the Jericho area which has been baffling Oxford police. The Engine identifies a suspect who proves not to have a valid alibi for the night of the crime. The man is duly arrested and arraigned. Sherlock Holmes cannot ignore this challenge. He and Watson travel to Oxford, where a battle of wits ensues between the great detective and his mechanical counterpart as they compete to see which of them can be first to solve a series of crimes. As man and machine vie for supremacy, it becomes clear that the Thinking Engine has its own agenda. Holmes's and Watson's lives are on the line as a ghost from the past catches up with them...

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Author
Lovegrove, James
Publisher
Titan Books Ltd
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9781783295043
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, True Crime
Rating
3.86 / 5 (128 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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