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Professor Van Dusen, The Thinking Machine Omnibus by Futrelle, Jacques is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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'The Thinking Machine Mysteries' is a comprehensive collection of forty-four stories featuring author Jacques Futrelle's most famous detective, Professor Van Dusen--the 'Thinking Machine,' who solved impossible crimes. Professor Augustus Van Dusen, the 'Thinking Machine,' is an eccentric scientist with superior mental powers. He has an assistant, the clever newspaper reporter Hutchinson Hatch, who brings him cases. This model of team work was copied later by many mystery writers, among them Rex Stout in his books about Archie Goodwin and Nero Wolfe. With Sherlock Holmes, Van Dusen shared an unemotional and technical approach to problems, but without Holmes' human weaknesses, such as drug-taking, or Father Brown's moral and political concerns. Van Dusen exemplified pure thought without human feelings. In 'The Problem of a Dressing Room,' there's an explanation of how the professor got his nickname: Van Dusen recounts how he can't play chess but that after a few hours of instruction he could defeat a master player. When Van Dusen proves that he wasn't joking, and beats his Russian opponent, the man exclaims: "Mon Dieu! You are not a man; you are a brain - a machine - a

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Author

Futrelle, Jacques

Publisher

fallen leaves press (TM) and ignacio hills press (TM) IgnacioHillsPress.com

Published

2010

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

True Crime, Crime, Detective & Crime Fiction