Thinking Machine Jacques Futrelle

THE THINKING MACHINE: JACQUES FUTRELLE by Freddie Seymour & Bettina Kyper is the first official authorized biography of an important novelist & pioneer American mystery/detective story writer, creator of an "American" Sherlock Holmes - Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, "The Thinking Machine," who relied solely on his brain to solve baffling cases...& whose credo was "nothing is impossible!" Futrelle's Professor, with his prickly personality & brilliant mind enjoyed instant popularity when first introduced in "The Problem of Cell 13" in Boston in 1905 -- not only in the United States but England as well. At least one of Futrelle's stories is consistently included in anthologies of mystery/detective fiction even today. Literary authorities consider Futrelle as second only to Edgar Allan Poe in the development of the American mystery narrative. Included in this biography are reprints of four out-of-print Futrelle stories to acquaint readers with this author who died at age 37 a victim of the 1912 RMS TITANIC disaster. This book, receiving worldwide attention, is available from Seymour/Kyper Productions, P.O. Box 1369, Sandwich, MA 02563 at $12. A MUST READ for mystery buffs and RMS TITANIC devotees.Seymour, Freddie is the author of 'Thinking Machine Jacques Futrelle' with ISBN 9780964519305 and ISBN 0964519305.