title: Jacques Futrelle's "The Thinking Machine": The Enigmatic Problems of Prof. Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S., M. D., M. D. S. (Modern Library Classics)
author:  Jacques Futrelle 
description: When I was a young man I read, thoroughly enjoyed, and long remembered The Problem of Cell 13. Now, like a brisk morning breeze, it returns. I say thats swell. Tony Hillerman
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  # The Case of the Scientific Murderer
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Jacques Futrelle
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  Certainly no problem that ever came to the attention of The Thinking
  
  
  Machine required in a greater degree subtlety of mind, exquisite
  
  
  analytical sense, and precise knowledge of the marvels of science than
  
  
  did that singular series of events which began with the death of the
  
  
  Honorable Violet Danbury, only daughter and sole heir of the late Sir
  
  
  Duval Danbury, of Leamington, England. In this case The Thinking
  
  
  Machine—more properly, Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, Ph. D.,
  
  
  M. D., F. R. S., et cetera, et cetera—brought to bear upon an
  
  
  extraordinary mystery of crime that intangible genius of logic which
  
  
  had made him the court of last appeal in his profession. “Logic is
  
  
  inexorable,” he has said; and no greater proof of his assertion was
  
  
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