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Jacques Futrelle. 49 Tales of The Thinking Machine (49 detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine")
49 Tales of The Thinking Machine
Table of Contents
“The Thinking Machine”
My first Experience with the great Logician
A Piece of String
The Problem of the Perfect Alibi
The Problem of the Stolen Bank Notes
The Problem of Convict no. 97
The first problem
The Problem of the Crystal Gazer
Five Millions by Wireless
O.K. Hatch
The Problem of the Green Eyed Monster
The Problem of the Hidden Million
Kidnapped Baby Blake, Millionaire
2
3
4
5
To the Persons who now Hold Douglas Blake:
6
The Problem of the Missing Necklace
The Problem of the Motor Boat
The Mystery of the Ralston Bank Burglary
2
3
4
5
6
The Problem of the Opera Box
The Problem of the Cross Mark
The Problem of the Broken Bracelet
The Problem of the Lost Radium
The Problem of the Stolen Rubens
The Problem of the Souvenir Cards
The Problem of the Superfluous Finger
The case of the Scientific Murderer
The Problem of the Deserted House
The Mystery of the Fatal Cipher
2
3
4
5
6
The Mystery of the Flaming Phantom
2
3
4
5
6
The Problem of the Ghost Woman
The Mystery of the Golden Dagger
2
3
4
5
6
The Great Auto Mystery
2
3
4
5
6
The Grinning God
Part i. Wraiths of the Storm by Mrs. Jacques Futrelle
Part ii. The House That Was. by Jacques Futrelle
The Mystery of the Grip of Death
2
3
4
5
6
The Haunted Bell
2
The Jackdaw
The Problem of the Knotted Cord
The Mystery of the Man Who Was Lost
2
3
4
5
6
The Mystery of a Studio
2
3
4
5
6
The Problem of the Organ Grinder
The Phantom Motor
The Problem of the Private Compartment
The Problem of the Auto Cab
The Problem of the Red Rose
The Roswell Tiara
The Mystery of the Scarlet Thread
2
3
4
5
6
The Silver Box
The three Overcoats
The Tragedy of the Life Raft
The Problem of Cell 13
2
3
4
5
6
The Problem of the Vanishing man
The Problem of the Interrupted Wireless
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Jacques Futrelle
(49 detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine")
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“After I stole the boy and he recognized me, I wanted him as my own, absolutely safe from legal action by his father. Then I wrote to Mr. Francis, telling him I had Walter, and asking that in pity to me he legally give me the boy by a document of some sort. In that letter I told how he might signify his willingness to do this; but of course I would not give my address. I placed a string, the one you saw, in that tree after having tied two knots in it. It was a silly, romantic means of communication he and I used years ago in my girlhood when we both lived near here. If he agreed that I should have the child, he was to come or send some one last night and unties one of the two knots.”
Then, to Hatch, the intricacies passed away. He understood clearly. Instead of going to the police with the second letter from his wife, Francis had gone to The Thinking Machine. The Thinking Machine sent the reporter to untie the knot, which was an answer of “Yes” to Mrs. Francis’s request for the child. Then she would have written giving her address, and there would have been a clue to the child’s whereabouts. It was all perfectly clear now.
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