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Obviously, anything we have by this author is from before he boarded the Titanic, and stayed on it while allowing his wife and others to depart in lifeboats. Here, his main character is a plucky female spy, so I'm intrigued. First chapter already has me keen on her way of doing things...
— Mar 11, 2025 06:50AM
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Okay. I won't continue with only one novel set in the US, per month. Trying to avoid USA fiction simply reminds me of US politics, and I get more upset trying to avoid certain books every month...thus the pride and contentment I wanted to feel for four years is replaced by me being more pissed off than ever. I've scrubbed my life as free as it can be of certain things, people. Keeping books separate is better.
— Mar 10, 2025 09:11AM
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Mar 11, 2025 07:34AM
How tragic. I'm glad his works survive him. I just added a collection of short stories by Jacques and his wife, May, to my TBR. Maybe I'll get to read it someday. But at least it's on my radar now! Thank you!
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Theresa (mysteries.and.mayhem) wrote: "How tragic. I'm glad his works survive him. I just added a collection of short stories by Jacques and his wife, May, to my TBR. Maybe I'll get to read it someday. But at least it's on my radar now!..."His 'Thinking Machine' stories are the most famous - good for readers of Sherlock Holmes short stories, Father Brown stories, that kind of thing. I liked them, low-balled my overall rating for the collection I read - but they were fun.
I didn't know this was a spy novel when I ordered it, I just knew wanted to get to Futrelle again, partly because of his unique demise; only a few writers of fiction were lost with the Titanic (John Jacob Astor had published an SF novel that I read at the end of last year).
I'll be sure to look into his writing a little further. The book I added has some stories from his Thinking Machine collection, among others. I just noticed the only version GR has and the one I added is a Chinese edition! I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be able to read that version. 😅 But it's there to remind me.
Theresa (mysteries.and.mayhem) wrote: "I'll be sure to look into his writing a little further. The book I added has some stories from his Thinking Machine collection, among others. I just noticed the only version GR has and the one I ad..."Yeah, that's a way to just flag an author for future consideration. Back in 2003, when Futrelle was not much in print and not showing up in Used bookstores - but I needed The Thinking Machine stories to fulfill a "100 Best Crime & Mysteries" list requirement - suddenly there was this edition: 9780812970142.
But it's old now. I suspect the stuff is mostly free, somewhere, in the Public Domain (including what I'm reading now).
Two Envelopes And A Phone wrote: "Theresa (mysteries.and.mayhem) wrote: "I'll be sure to look into his writing a little further. The book I added has some stories from his Thinking Machine collection, among others. I just noticed t..."Yeah - my first inclination is to check Project Gutenburg! :)
