I have quite enjoyed various reprints of older mystery books from British Crime Classics, or, in this case, the Library of Congress. Professor Van Dusen believes murders can be solved by logic and observation as can an escape from a high security prison cell. He has become known as the thinking machine, hence the title of this short story collection The Thinking Machine: Being the True and Complete Statement of Several Intricate Mysteries which came under the Observation of Professor S.F.X. Van Dusen, PH.D., LL.D., F.R.S., M.D., etc., by Jacques Futrelle. His books had a chance to be as popular as Ellery Queen and other popular writers of the time (and it will be easy to see why) except for one tragic event: he was a passenger on the Titanic.

It's Halloween, again, in Sinful, and after last year (where a body, a beheaded body, was found), the Swamp Team 3 have decided to just enjoy the festival, but not help out again. You'd think one body was enough, right? Instead a black horse appears, ridden by a headless man. A dead man, not a prop ... and so the adventure begins again in Frightfully Fortune: Rest When You're Dead? The body was supposed to be in the funeral home, and in tact. What happened? This is one of the Miss Fortune Mystery series by Jana Deleon.

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