This irascible genius, this diminutive egghead scientist, known to the world as âThe Thinking Machine,â is no less than the newly rediscovered literary link between Sherlock Holmes and Nero Wolfe: Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, whoâwith only the power of ratiocinationâunravels problems of outrageous criminous activity in dazzlingly impossible settings. He can escape from the inescapable death-row âCell 13.â He can fathom why the young woman chopped off her own ďŹnger. He can solve the anomaly of the phone that could not speak. These twenty-three Edwardian-era adventures prove (as The Thinking Machine reiterates) that âtwo and two make four, not sometimes, but all the time.â
Jacques Futrelle's "The Thinking Machine" - Jacques Futrelle & Harlan Ellison
This irascible genius, this diminutive egghead scientist, known to the world as âThe Thinking Machine,â is no less than the newly rediscovered literary link between Sherlock Holmes and Nero Wolfe: Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, whoâwith only the power of ratiocinationâunravels problems of outrageous criminous activity in dazzlingly impossible settings. He can escape from the inescapable death-row âCell 13.â He can fathom why the young woman chopped off her own ďŹnger. He can solve the anomaly of the phone that could not speak. These twenty-three Edwardian-era adventures prove (as The Thinking Machine reiterates) that âtwo and two make four, not sometimes, but all the time.â