18.00 USD
"We shall soon know, beyond any shadow of doubt," declared Chief Inspector Duclos with an air of supreme confidence, "whether or not it was you, my fine young fellow, who upon the afternoon in question, removed from said windowsill the cherry tart which Madame Charrier had placed there to cool only moments before."
Young Pierre Tourneur, eager to clear his good name, took up the two bio-electrically sensitive thought extractors in his small, trembling hands. Would the inspector's machine prove his innocence? Or was the inspector, as many of his subordinates in the Special Crimes Unit seemed to believe, a mere phantasist, and mad as the proverbial March hare?
"And now, for the moment of truth," the Inspector exclaimed with a triumphant snap of his fingers. Then, with a gleam in his eyes, and an expression of sheer delight twisting his features, he threw the small, innocent looking, black switch.
Now, you tell one :)
The message written on the reverse of this card, may give some clue as to the real nature of this apparatus. It looks very much like a Duchenne machine, a device invented by Guillaume Duchenne, in the mid-1800s, to further his study of electrophysiology, but we find it's much more fun making up our own reasons for its existence.
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