Jacques Futrelle: 26 books

Quando l’americano Jacques Futrelle (1875-1912) perì a soli 37 anni nell’affondamento del Titanic, la narrativa gialla perse uno dei suoi talenti più brillanti e singolari. Giornalista e direttore di varie testate, regista e attore teatrale, acquisì la fama nel 1905 con la pubblicazione sul...

Jacques Futrelle (1875-1912) era un giornalista e scrittore americano conosciuto per aver scritto tra le sue altre cose un paio di romanzi e una serie di racconti gialli aventi come protagonista il professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, soprannominato "la Macchina Pensante", una specie di...

A treasure trove of mysteries drawn from the case files of the world’s cleverest private investigators.   The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes features many of the consulting detective’s best-known cases. “A Scandal in Bohemia” finds Holmes matching wits with—and being outfoxed by—a beautiful...

A New York jeweler is thrust into international intrigue when a perfect diamond inexplicably appears in the mail A breathtakingly flawless diamond is delivered to accomplished jeweler Harry Latham. Even though he is an expert in his trade, Latham is astonished by the stone’s perfection and...

Mistaken identity and intrigue abound in this classic mystery tale In the midst of a high-society masquerade ball, someone pulls off a daring heist. Several gold plates have been stolen, their value estimated at $15,000. Even more shocking is the fact that the crime seems to have been committed...

America’s smartest sleuth solves his most puzzling cases yet Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen may look and sound like an egghead scientist—because he is one—but there is no detective in the world villains fear more. With the help of his friend and sidekick, newspaper reporter Hutchison...

For the world’s most brilliant criminologist, every mystery has a solution His name is Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, but to the newspapers he is known as “The Thinking Machine.” Slender, stooped, his appearance dominated by his large forehead and perpetual squint, Van Dusen spends...

MEET SHERLOCK HOLMES' ONLY SERIOUS RIVAL AT DETECTION! Meet Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, who The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection calls "the most cerebral of all detectives."  One of the great scientific detectives, a master logician, the Thinking Machine solves...

It appears that there is a cell in the jail wherein a prisoner tells the trutch about matters.

Practically all those letters remaining in the alphabet after Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen was named were afterward acquired by that gentleman in the course of a brilliant scientific career, and, being honorably acquired, were tacked on to the other end. His name, therefore, taken with all that belonged...

All the world rubs elbows in Washington. Outwardly it is merely a city of evasion, of conventionalities, sated with the commonplace pleasures of life, listless, blasé even, and always exquisitely, albeit frigidly, courteous; but beneath the still, suave surface strange currents play at cross purposes,...

It was a thing, trivial enough, yet so strangely mystifying in its happening that the mind hesitated to accept it as an actual occurrence despite the indisputable evidence of the sense of hearing. As the seconds ticked on, Franklin Phillips was not at all certain that it had happened, and gradually...