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'The Chase of the Golden Plate' was Jacques Futrelle's first published book-length story featuring the arrogant, cocaine-taking, large-headed Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen, nicknamed 'The Thinking Machine'. A high-society fancy-dress party falls victim to a robbery - confusions of identity, long-held grudges, romance and honour all appear in the excitement that follows. Van Dusen was the prolific detective writer's most famous character, appearing in a number of his works. Futrelle died in 1912 aboard the Titanic, after he had made sure that his wife had secured a space in a lifeboat

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Chase of the Golden Plate
• Author: Jacques Futrelle
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120
• EAN: 9781843913603
• ISBN: 1843913607
• ID: 04447679
• Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd
• Weight: 178 g
• Dimensions: 124 × 195 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. March 2012

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