Books By Futrelle Jacques - Author

Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 - April 15, 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. Most people know him for the short mystery stories he wrote with Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, who was also called "The Thinking Machine" because of how smart he was. The RMS Titanic sank and killed him. Futrelle was born in Georgia's Pike County. He worked for the Atlanta Journal, where he started their sports section, the New York Herald, the Boston Post, and the Boston American. In 1905, his character Thinking Machine was in a serialized form of the short story "The Problem of Cell 13" in the Boston American. In 1906, Futrelle quit the Boston American to write books. He had a house made with a view of the harbor in Scituate, Massachusetts. He named it "Stepping Stones" and lived there most of the time until he died in 1912. His last book, My Lady's Garter, came out after he died in 1912. She wrote "To the heroes of the Titanic, I dedicate this my husband's book" under a picture of him in the book. The two children he had with her were named Virginia and Jacques "John" Jr. They were married in 1895.