Professor SFX Van Dusen

The central character of a series of stories by Jacques Futrelle, an American author who was born in 1875, and died in 1912 on the RMS Titanic.

Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S., M. D., etc., popularly known as "The Thinking Machine," assisted newspaper reporter Hutchison Hatch in solving seemingly unsolvable crimes through the power of "logic, inevitable logic."

The most famous story written by Futrelle is "The Problem of Cell 13" Many of the stories can be found on www.futrelle.com