My First Experience with the Great Logician

by Jacques Futrelle

Short story.

Unknown Binding

About the author

Jacques Heath Futrelle (1875-1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring the "Thinking Machine", Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen. He worked for the Atlanta Journal, where he began their sports section; the New York Herald; the Boston Post; and the Boston American. In 1905, his Thinking Machine character first appeared in a serialized version of The Problem of Cell 13. In 1895, he married fellow writer Lily May Peel, with whom he had two children. While returning from Europe aboard the RMS Titanic, Futrelle, a first-cabin passenger, refused to board a lifeboat insisting his wife board instead. He perished in the Atlantic. His works include: The Chase of the Golden Plate (1906), The Simple Case of Susan (1908), The Thinking Machine on the Case (1908), The Diamond Master (1909), Elusive Isabel (1909), The High Hand (1911), My Lady's Garter (1912), Blind Man's Bluff (1914).

Reviews

[Cindy B. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Man is victim of a poisoning and lives to find out who and why. Classic style mystery. I thought resolution was fun. Free audio at Librivox reader: appropriately man, unnamed? Free text vers. at Gutenberg. Re-readable.

[Yasmin Halliwell Fraser Bower · Rating 4 out of 5]

I listened to the audio book and it was a good experience. The story is about a man that is being poisoned but doesn't know how. It is explained through logic how, and that leads to explain his life and past. It was a good resolution, I enjoyed the ending. 4 stars!

[midnightfaerie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. A short story about a man who's poisoned and awakes to find a Sherlock-Holmes-type-Dr. analyzing him and telling him what he's deduced about how he came to be there and his condition. The recovering man is overly surprised and the story is too short to allow for any great character development.

[Andrew Robertson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting! Though the story should have been longer and told in a different way.