This carefully crafted ebook: “49 Tales of The Thinking Machine (49 detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine")" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Professor Van Dusen . is a fictional character in a series of detective short stories and two novels by Jacques Futrelle. Some of the short stories were originally published in The Saturday Evening Post and the Boston American. In the stories Professor Van Dusen solves a variety of different mysteries together with his friend Hutchinson Hatch, reporter of a fictional newspaper called "The Daily New Yorker". The professor is known as the "Thinking Machine", solving problems by the remorseless application of logic. His catchphrases include, "Two and two always equal four," "Nothing is impossible", and "All things that start must go somewhere." Table of Contents : “The Thinking Machine” My first Experience with the great Logician A Piece of String The Problem of the Perfect Alibi The Problem of the Stolen Bank Notes The Problem of Convict no. 97 The first problem The Problem of the Crystal Gazer Five Millions by Wireless The Problem of the Green Eyed Monster The Problem of the Hidden Million Kidnapped Baby Blake, Millionaire The Problem of the Missing Necklace The Problem of the Motor Boat The Mystery of the Ralston Bank Burglary The Problem of the Opera Box The Problem of the Cross Mark The Problem of the Broken Bracelet The Problem of the Lost Radium The Problem of the Stolen Rubens The Problem of the Souvenir Cards The Problem of the Superfluous Finger The case of the Scientific Murderer The Problem of the Deserted House The Mystery of the Fatal Cipher The Mystery of the Flaming Phantom The Problem of the Ghost Woman The Mystery of the Golden Dagger The Great Auto Mystery The Grinning God The Mystery of the Grip of Death The Haunted Bell The Jackdaw The Problem of the Knotted Cord The Mystery of the Man Who Was Lost The Mystery of a Studio The Problem of the Organ Grinder The Phantom Motor The Problem of the Private Compartment The Problem of the Auto Cab The Problem of the Red Rose The Roswell Tiara The Mystery of the Scarlet Thread The Silver Box The three Overcoats The Tragedy of the Life Raft The Problem of Cell 13 The Problem of the Vanishing man The Problem of the Interrupted Wireless Jacques Heath Futrelle (1875 – 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine" for his application of logic to any and all situations. Futrelle died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.