Jacques Futrelle and The Thinking Machine
By Terrie Farley Moran
January 25, 2012Jacques Futrelle, a journalist and fiction writer, was born to French Huguenot parents in Pike County, Georgia in 1875. As a young man he moved to Boston and worked at The Boston American, where many of his stories first appeared. Over his brief career, Futrelle’s detective fiction featured many sleuths such as Fred Boyd, Doctor…