Modern Library Classics: The Problem Of Cell 13 And Other Thinking Machine Stories

This book comprises an edition of the best of a group of detective stories written by Jacques Futrelle, an early American mystery writer and the North American equivalent of Arthur Conan Doyle, whose promising career was cut short when he died on "Titanic".

Considered some of the best crime stories ever by Ellery Queen and Julian Symons among others, the 'Thinking Machine' tales feature Professor Augustus SFX Van Dusen, aka the "Thinking Machine", an eccentric scientist possessing a superior intellect who solves impossible crimes.