The Diamond Master

Jacques Heath Futrelle (1875-1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring the "Thinking Machine", Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen. He worked for the Atlanta Journal, where he began their sports section; the New York Herald; the Boston Post; and the Boston American. 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. While returning from Europe aboard the RMS Titanic, Futrelle, a first-cabin passenger, refused to board a lifeboat insisting his wife board instead. He perished in the Atlantic. His works include: 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).


  1. The Problem of Cell 13

    Jacques Futrelle

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  2. Delphi Complete Works of Jacques Futrelle Illustrated

    Jacques Futrelle

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  3. Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Mystery and Adventure. Vol. 4

    Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Jacques Futrelle, Thomas Hardy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Susan Glaspell

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  4. Classic American Detective

    Jacques Futrelle, Gelett Burgess, Melville Davisson Post, Jack London, Suzan Glaspell

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  5. 49 Tales of The Thinking Machine : 49 detective cases of Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, known as "The Thinking Machine"

    Jacques Futrelle

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  6. Professor Augustus Van Dusen: 49 Detective Mysteries in One Edition : Adventures of The Thinking Machine

    Jacques Futrelle

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  7. Professor Augustus Van Dusen: 49 Detective Mysteries in One Edition : Adventures of The Thinking Machine

    Jacques Futrelle

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  8. 49 Tales of The Thinking Machine (49 detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine")

    Jacques Futrelle

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  9. Professor Augustus Van Dusen: 49 Detective Mysteries in One Edition : Adventures of The Thinking Machine

    Jacques Futrelle

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  10. 100 classic detectives. Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Illustrated : The Gold-Bug, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Innocence of Father Brown, Crime and Punishment and others

    Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, EMILE GABORIAU, EW Hornung, M. McDonnell Bodkin, Guy Boothby, Jacques Futrelle, Melville Davisson Post, Ethel Lina White, Emmuska Orczy, Edgar Wallace, Algernon Blackwood, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, Anna Katherine Green, Fergus Hume, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dorothy L. Sayers, R Austin Freeman

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  11. The Leak

    Jacques Futrelle

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  12. Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Vol. 4 (Mystery and Adventure)

    Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Jacques Futrelle, Thomas Hardy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Susan Glaspell

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