The Problem Of Cell 13 - Couverture rigide

Futrelle, Jacques

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1169200389 ISBN 13 : 9781169200388

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

"The Problem of Cell 13" is a short story by Jacques Futrelle. It was first published in 1905 and later collected in The Thinking Machine (1907), which was featured in crime writer H. R. F. Keating's list of the 100 best crime and mystery books ever published. The story was selected by science fiction author Harlan Ellison for Lawrence Block's Best Mysteries of the Century. Like Futrelle's other short stories, "The Problem of Cell 13" features Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen as the main character, although most of the story is seen through the perspective of a prison warden. While in a scientific debate with two men, Dr. Charles Ransome and Alfred Fielding, Augustus, "The Thinking Machine", insists that nothing is impossible when the human mind is properly applied. To prove this, he agrees that he will take part in an experiment in which he will be incarcerated in a prison for one week and given the challenge of escaping. He achieves the goal with great ingenuity (and aid from his frequent confederate, newspaper reporter Hutchinson Hatch) and explains fully how he did it. Along the way, he tosses out impossible fillips and red herrings, such as writing notes with no pen and making change from a five-dollar bill

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1169200389
• ISBN 13: 9781169200388
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 46
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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