Reading & Training: The Problem of Cell 13 + audio CD - Couverture souple

Futrelle, Jacques; Thomson, Graeme

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8877547596 ISBN 13 : 9788877547590

Editeur : Cideb, 2004

Synopsis

‘Lock me in any cell in any prison anywhere at any time, wearing only normal clothes and I’ll escape in a week.’ For Professor Van Dusen, otherwise known as ‘The Thinking Machine’, nothing is impossible. Logic is his passion. One hour later he finds himself locked up in Chisholm prison and has to use all his mental resources to find the solution to the problem.

Pour le Professeur Van Dusen rien n’est impossible : la logique est sa passion. « Enfermez-moi dans n’importe quelle cellule de n’importe quelle prison, n’importe où et à n’importe quel moment, habillé seulement normalement et je m’évaderai en une semaine ». Une heure après avoir prononcé ces mots, il se retrouve enfermé dans la cellule de la mort de la prison de Chisholm. Réussira-t-il à s’évader ?

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: Cideb
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8877547596
• ISBN 13: 9788877547590
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible