The Diamond Master

Description

A precious diamond that costs a lot of millions is delivered, in a simple parcel, to a diamond trader. Then he learns that the same diamonds were sent to other diamond traders. They speculate on the emergence of the jewels, the person behind this and the reason why that person sends the jewels.

The Diamond Master includes these contents: The First Diamond; Tweedledum and Tweedledee; Thursday at Three; The Unlimited Supply; The Astute Mr. Birnes; The Mysterious Woman; A Winged Messenger; Some Conjectures; And More Diamonds!; The Big Game; The Silent Bell; The Third Degree; Mr. Czenki Appears; Caught in the Net; The Truth in Part; Mr. Czenki Wxplains; and The Great Cube.

Jacques Heath Futrelle was a United States journalist and spy author. He is most famous for his short mystery fiction starring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also referred to as The Thinking Machine for his use of reason to any and every circumstances. Jacques breathe his last upon the plummeting of the RMS Titanic.

Jacques was born in Pike County, Georgia. He became a contributor for the Atlanta Journal, where he started their sports section; the New York Herald; the Boston Post; and the Boston American, where, in 1905, his Thinking Machine creation was first seen in an episodic adaptation of the short tale, The Problem of Cell 13.

Jacques stopped working at the Boston American in 1906 to concentrate his interest in composing stories. He had a harbor-view residence constructed in Scituate, Massachusetts, which he named Stepping Stones, and spent all of his life there up to his passing in 1912.

His final piece, My Lady’s Garter, was printed after his death in 1912. Jacques’ widow wrote in the novel, “To the heroes of the Titanic, I dedicate this my husband’s book”, below is a photograph of her deceased husband.
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