The Problem of Cell 13 [short story]

by Jacques Futrelle

Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen (Racconto — 1)

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Jacques Heath Futrelle (1875-1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring the "Thinking Machine," Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen. He worked for the Atlanta Journal, where he began their sports section; the New York Herald; the Boston Post; and the Boston American. In 1905, his Thinking Machine character first appeared in a serialized version of The Problem of Cell 13. In 1895, he married fellow writer Lily May show more Peel, with whom he had two children. While returning from Europe aboard the RMS Titanic, Futrelle, a first-cabin passenger, refused to board a lifeboat insisting his wife board instead. He perished in the Atlantic. His works include: The Chase of the Golden Plate (1906), The Simple Case of Susan (1908), The Thinking Machine on the Case (1908), The Diamond Master (1909), Elusive Isabel (1909), The High Hand (1911), My Lady's Garter (1912), Blind Man's Bluff (1914). show less

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A sapersi calare in un’epoca – della letteratura, prima che della storia – risulta delizioso. Un tuffo nel passato, perché agli albori la letteratura gialla è così: un personaggio molto sopra le righe, geniale e arrogante (se vogliamo da questo prototipo discende direttamente Hercule Poirot) sfida il pubblico, i suoi contemporanei e assieme i lettori, con un mistero classico, qui una variante della "camera chiusa".
Prima di tutto consigliato agli estimatori del giallo che vogliano farsi una cavalcata nelle origini del genere. En passant si raccomanda come cura d’urto a tutti quelli che, nutriti di sola contemporaneità, arricciano il naso di fronte a tutto ciò che esula da schemi noti e sentenziano in base a regolette show more desunte unicamente da quanto – a loro – noto. show less

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Canonical title
The Problem of Cell 13 [short story]
Original title
The Problem of Cell 13
Original publication date
1905
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Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen
Original language
English

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Fiction and Literature, Mystery
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813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
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PZ3.F989 PLanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction in English
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