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Futrelle, Jacques

The American journalist and author Jacques Heath Futrelle made sure there was room for his wife in a lifeboat before he went down with the Titanic. He was only thirty-seven years old when he drowned, taking six or seven recently finished short stories about the original amateur sleuth, the super-intelligent genius Professor Augustus S.F.X Van Dusen, known as The Thinking Machine, into the...

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Portrait image of H.R.F. Keating Photo: Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Corbis via Getty Images (1991)

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Keating, H.R.F.

Henry Raymond Fitzwalter "Harry" Keating is a British author born at St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. He was educated in the Merchant Taylor’s school in London between 1940 and 1944 and served in the military until 1948 when he entered Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1952. Keating then worked at various newspapers, mainly in London. He started to work for The Times in 1...

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