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CAREER A newspaperman, Futrelle worked for the '' Atlanta Journal '', where he began their sports section, the '' New York Herald '', the '' Boston Post '', and the '' Boston American '', where, 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, Virginia and Jacques "John" Jr. Staying with the ''Boston American'' until 1906, Futrelle left the newspaper business to focus his attention on writing novels. He had a house built in Scituate, Massachusetts , which he called "Stepping Stones", spending most of his time there until his untimely death in 1912. Returning from Europe aboard the RMS ''Titanic'' , Futrelle, a first cabin passenger, refused to board a lifeboat insisting his wife board instead, according to his wife, with the belief that her boarding would give him a better chance of surviving; he perished in the Atlantic. On 29 July 1912 his mother, Linnie Futrelle, died in her Georgia home; her death was attributed to grief over her son's death. Futrelle is used as the protagonist in ''The Titanic Murders'', a novel about two murders aboard the ''Titanic'', by Max Allan Collins . SELECTED WORKS Novels
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