Biographie de l'auteur :
American writer Jacques Heath Futrelle (1875 – 1912) was a journalist and mystery writer known for his detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine". The professor is known for his application of logic to all situations. Futrelle was born in Georgia and worked for the Atlanta Journal, the New York Herald and the Boston Post. Futrelle left news to focus his attention on writing novels. His last work, My Lady's Garter, was published in 1912. Futrelle's widow inscribed in the book, "To the heroes of the Titanic, I dedicate this my husband's book", under a photo of her late husband. Futrelle died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
Présentation de l'éditeur :
There were thirty or forty personally addressed letters, the daily heritage of the head of a great business establishment; and a plain, yellow-wrapped package about the size of a cigarette-box, some three inches long, two inches wide and one inch deep. It was neatly tied with thin scarlet twine, and innocent of markings except for the superscription in a precise, copperplate hand, and the smudge of the postmark across the ten-cent stamp in the upper right-hand corner. The imprint of the cancellation, faintly decipherable, showed that the package had been mailed at the Madison Square substation at half-past seven o'clock of the previous evening.
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