Jacques Futrelle

Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 - April 15, 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer who achieved fame for his detective stories featuring "The Thinking Machine" which were originally published in The Saturday Evening Post and the Boston American. Futrelle died at age 37 on April 15, 1912, on the RMS Titanic. He refused to board a lifeboat, insisting that his wife board instead. Interestingly Futrelle was used as the lead character in Max Allan Collins' disaster series novel The Titanic Murders (1999), about two murders aboard the Titanic.