Professor Van Dusen: The Thinking Machine

When Professor Van Dusen sits back in his chair, when he turns his head upward and squints through his spectacles, when he presses his fingers together tip to tip, it means that the Thinking Machine, as he has come to be known, is applying his impeccable logic to another baffling case. And no one–no one–ever manages to escape it.

In this fourth book in the Fingerprints Classics series, JourneyForth brings you ten separate mystery stories by American author Jacques Futrelle, who perished in the first and only voyage of the ill-fated cruise ship Titanic. Whether it involves escaping from and ironclad cell, finding a bank robber's hidden stash, or dousing a flaming phantom, monumental dilemmas shrink to gnat-sized proportions in the wake of the reasoning power of Futrelles eccentric Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen–the Thinking Machine. Recommended for ages 12 and up.