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4363510The Chase of the Golden Plate: "An old enemy of mine"https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-chase-of-the-golden-plate---an-old-enemy-of-mine--9781835472781/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4035616/image.jpg?v=638417403642800000127141MXNCopyright GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p>Jacques Heath Futrelle was born on the 9th April 1875 in Pike County, Georgia.</p><p>His early career was as a journalist. Initially he worked for the Atlanta Journal where he began their sports section. This was followed by work for the New York Herald, the Boston Post and the Boston American. At the latter, in 1905, he published the serialized version of his short story The Problem of Cell 13 whos main character was Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, commonly known as The Thinking Machine, a detective, who used logic to solve crimes.</p><p>In 1895 he married Lily May Peel with whom he had two children.</p><p>In 1906 buoyed by the success of his short stories he left the paper to write novels. Such was his success that he had a house, Stepping Stones, designed and built with a harbor view at Scituate, Massachusetts, where the family would spend most of their time together.</p><p>On April 15th, 1912 he was returning from Europe as a first-class passenger aboard the Titanic when it stuck an iceberg. He refused to board a lifeboat but insisted that Lily did. She acquiesced and remembered the last she saw of him he was smoking a cigarette on deck with John Jacob Astor IV. His body was never recovered.</p>...4293654The Chase of the Golden Plate: "An old enemy of mine"127141https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-chase-of-the-golden-plate---an-old-enemy-of-mine--9781835472781/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4035616/image.jpg?v=638417403642800000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249781835472781_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_<p>Jacques Heath Futrelle was born on the 9th April 1875 in Pike County, Georgia.</p><p>His early career was as a journalist. Initially he worked for the Atlanta Journal where he began their sports section. This was followed by work for the New York Herald, the Boston Post and the Boston American. At the latter, in 1905, he published the serialized version of his short story The Problem of Cell 13 whos main character was Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, commonly known as The Thinking Machine, a detective, who used logic to solve crimes.</p><p>In 1895 he married Lily May Peel with whom he had two children.</p><p>In 1906 buoyed by the success of his short stories he left the paper to write novels. Such was his success that he had a house, Stepping Stones, designed and built with a harbor view at Scituate, Massachusetts, where the family would spend most of their time together.</p><p>On April 15th, 1912 he was returning from Europe as a first-class passenger aboard the Titanic when it stuck an iceberg. He refused to board a lifeboat but insisted that Lily did. She acquiesced and remembered the last she saw of him he was smoking a cigarette on deck with John Jacob Astor IV. His body was never recovered.</p>...9781835472781_Copyright Grouplibro_electonico_9781835472781_9781835472781Jacques FutrelleInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/directebooks-epub-1593f4fd-314a-4df7-b5e5-32b9307481e6.epub2024-01-01T00:00:00+00:00Copyright Group