Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 - April 15, 1912), born in Pike County, Georgia, was an American writer. He is best known for writing short mystery stories featuring the "Thinking Machine", Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen. April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Pike County is a county located in the state of Georgia. ... Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centres upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur. ... Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, Ph. ...

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Career

A newspaperman, Futrelle worked for the Atlanta Journal, where he began their sports section, the New York Herald, the Boston Post, and the Boston American, where, in 1905, his Thinking Machine character first appeared in a serialized version of "The Problem of Cell 13". In 1895, he married fellow writer Lily May Peel with whom he had two children, Virginia and Jacques "John" Jr. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the only major daily newspaper of Atlanta and metro Atlanta. ... The New York Herald was a large distribution newspaper based in New York City that existed between May 6, 1835 and 1924. ... The Boston Post was the most popular daily newspaper in New England for over a hundred years before it folded in 1956. ...

Staying with the Boston American until 1906, Futrelle left the newspaper business to focus his attention on writing novels. He had a house built in Scituate, Massachusetts, which he called "Stepping Stones", spending most of his time there until his untimely death in 1912. Scituate is a small seacoast town located in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod Bay midway between Boston and Plymouth. ...

Returning from Europe aboard the RMS Titanic, Futrelle, a first cabin passenger, refused to board a lifeboat insisting his wife board instead, according to his wife, with the belief that her boarding would give him a better chance of surviving; he perished in the Atlantic. On 29 July 1912 his mother, Linnie Futrelle, died in her Georgia home; her death was attributed to grief over her son's death. The New York Herald reports the disaster. ... July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

Futrelle is used as the protagonist in The Titanic Murders, a novel about two murders aboard the Titanic, by Max Allan Collins. Max Allan Collins is a prolific American mystery writer who has been called mysterys Renaissance man. He has written novels, screenplays, comic books, comic strips, trading cards, short stories, movie adaptations and historical fiction. ...

Selected works

Novels

• The Chase of the Golden Plate (1906)
• The Simple Case of Susan (1908)
• The Thinking Machine on the Case (1908)
• The Diamond Master (1909)
• Elusive Isabel (1909)
• The High Hand (1911)
• My Lady's Garter (1912)
• Blind Man's Bluff (1914)

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Stories

• "The House That Was" (a literary experiment with his wife, in which The Thinking Machine provided a rational solution to the seemingly impossible and supernatural events of a ghost story written by May)
• "The Phantom Motor"
• "The Problem of Cell 13" (1907)
• Various other short stories (see Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen for more)

See also: 1906 in literature, other events of 1907, 1908 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, Ph. ...

References

• "Futrelle Refused to Enter Lifeboat." New York Times. 19 April 1912: 6.
• "Futrelle's Mother is Dead." New York Times. 30 July 1912: 1.
• "Jacques Futrelle." Contemporary Authors. 2000. Gale Group Databases. 1 August 2003 <http://www.infotrac.galegroup.com>.
• "Says Ismay Ruled in Titanic's Boats." New York Times. 26 June 1915: 6.

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External links

• Jacques Futrelle Official Homepage
• Entry at Encyclopedia Titanica
• Works by Jacques Futrelle at Project Gutenberg