The Mystery Of The Fatal Cipher

by Jacques Futrelle

This book includes 10 short mystery novels taking the ""Thinking Machine"" Professor Van Dusen as the hero. These works feature clever conception, bizarre layout and wise answer, showing the extraordinary reasoning creation talent and profound writing skills of Jacques Futrelle. In the stories, Professor Van Dusen has the genius brain, keen intuition and excellent logic reasoning and he can solve all kinds of inexplicable mysteries, known as ""America's Sherlock Holmes"". The Thinking Machine series of Jacques Futrelle represents the highest level of short stories in the golden age and interprets the most essential and pure fun of ""giving priority to solving mystery"" of detective fictions.

243 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2004

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).

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