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'The Problem of Cell 13' is a short story by Jacques Futrelle
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 what is taken to be
great ingenuity and explains fully how he did it.
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 what is taken to be
great ingenuity and explains fully how he did it.
