The Classic Tales of Jacques Futrelle, Volume One: The Thinking MachineJACQUES FUTRELLE (1875 1912) is widely considered "the American Sherlock Holmes" for his series of stories about Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, who is better known as The Thinking Machine. Van Dusen, a master of logic, believed he could think himself out of any situation and solve any crime through the use of his immense intellect. Through dozens of stories, The Thinking Machine solved locked room puzzles, kidnappings, and more murders than