The Thinking Machine - LINK

This is actually mostly just for me, but I suppose someone else out there might like it, too.

This is a link to the official website of Jacques Futrelle, who wrote (among other things) an outstanding series of mystery-deduction stories. The hero was Professor S.F.X Van Deusen, aka "The Thinking Machine". I read a book of some of those stories when I was young, and they made a pretty big impression on me.

Futrelle himself was an interesting character, not least in the manner of his death: he was on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. With him, when he died, were several manuscripts for Thinking Machine stories - now lost forever, of course.

The site contains the full text of fifty Thinking Machine stories. I recommend starting with "The Problem of Cell 13". Yes, they're old, but they're really good.

The Thinking Machine - LINK

This is actually mostly just for me, but I suppose someone else out there might like it, too.

This is a link to the official website of Jacques Futrelle, who wrote (among other things) an outstanding series of mystery-deduction stories. The hero was Professor S.F.X Van Deusen, aka "The Thinking Machine". I read a book of some of those stories when I was young, and they made a pretty big impression on me.

Futrelle himself was an interesting character, not least in the manner of his death: he was on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. With him, when he died, were several manuscripts for Thinking Machine stories - now lost forever, of course.

The site contains the full text of fifty Thinking Machine stories. I recommend starting with "The Problem of Cell 13". Yes, they're old, but they're really good.