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Best "Thinking Machine" Detective Stories

Door Jacques Futrelle

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#441366-UB30
Titel	Best "Thinking Machine" Detective Stories: "The Problem of Cell 13" & 11 Other Stories
Auteur	Futrelle, Jacques
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York, NY : Dover Publications
Jaar van uitgave	1973
ISBN10	0486205371
ISBN13	9780486205373
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Rear cover wrinkled at bottom corner; brown stain rear cover.
Samenvatting	"Suppose you were locked into one of the most secure prisons in America around 1900; put into solitary confinement, with periodical inspections by the warden, who knew for a fact (you had told him) that you would escape in less than a week . How would you communicate with the outside, how would you smuggle in tools and weapons, and how would you finally escape in a dazzlingly logical way? This was the situation that confronted Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, The Thinking Machine, in "The Problem of Cell 13," one of the most famous mystery stories ever written. Eventually The Thinking Machine did escape, and his method is known to generations of fans, who have delighted in this favorite story. Not so well known, however, is the fact that Jacques Futrelle wrote many mor... (Lees verder)e stories about this unusual detective. In this volume the editor has selected the ten best stories about The Thinking Machine, adventures that concern a perfect alibi and a perfect accusation, an impossible theft of a container of radium, a precise sealed room mystery, a seeming flaming phantom, and other "impossible" mysteries. This is the first time that these stories have been available for decades. Also included are two of the very earliest adventures of The Thinking Machine that have never been reprinted since their appearance in a local newspaper in 1905. Since by almost everyone's criteria, The Thinking Machine stories are the most important American detective stories between Poe and the moderns, this is an indispensable volume for everyone who delights in a mystery"--Cover page 4.
Pagina's	241
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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