title: Scarlet Spider Vol.2  #12.1
author:  Christopher Yost 
description: Scarlet Spider Vol.2 #12.1 "Kaine Goes Head to Head with the Hand and Bruiser"
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  Mystery of the Scarlet Thread
  
  
  [I](Mystery%20of%20the%20Scarlet%20Thread_split_001.html#filepos2039)
  
  [II](Mystery%20of%20the%20Scarlet%20Thread_split_001.html#filepos12207)
  
  [III](Mystery%20of%20the%20Scarlet%20Thread_split_001.html#filepos25744)
  
  [IV](Mystery%20of%20the%20Scarlet%20Thread_split_001.html#filepos37245)
  
  [V](Mystery%20of%20the%20Scarlet%20Thread_split_001.html#filepos50135)
  
  [VI](Mystery%20of%20the%20Scarlet%20Thread_split_001.html#filepos63340)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Mystery of the Scarlet Thread
  
  
  ### Jacques Futrelle
  
  
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  Etext from Futrelle.com
  
  
  
  
  
  ### I
  
  
  The Thinking Machine—Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, Ph. D,
  
  
  LL. D., F. R. S., M. D., etc., scientist and logician—listened
  
  
  intently and without comment to a weird, seemingly inexpli