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Jacques Futrelle

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Jacques Futrelle was bom in Pike County, Georgia in 1875; he worked as a theatrical manager and journalist, and wrote fiction on the side. He penned more than 48 "Thinking Machine" stories before his death on the Titanic in April of 1912 (ironically one of the last he wrote was titled "The Tragedy of the Life Boat"). He also wrote several romance novels.

Books by Jacques Futrelle
The Thinking Machine
Jacques Futrelle

This entertaining short story collection features Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen, nicknamed "The Thinking Machine"-a brilliant but abrasive scientist who proves time and again that any puzzle can be solved by the application of logic.

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