The Mystery of Room 666 | Jacques Futrelle | Full Audiobook

Howard Meredith witnesses a woman leave a hotel room, moments after hearing a gunshot. When a body is discovered in the room it seems a clear case of murder. But can he convince the house detective, and the police, that the woman ever really existed?

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Jacques Futrelle (1875–1912) was an American journalist and author of novels and short stories, mostly in the science fiction and mystery genres. He was born in Pike County, Georgia, and began his career as a journalist for the Atlanta Journal, before moving on to papers in New York and Boston. After a period writing for the theatre in Virginia, he settled in Scituate, Massachusetts in 1906 to become a full time writer of fiction. He is probably best remembered today for his character Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, "The Thinking Machine", an American rival to Sherlock Holmes who appeared in more than 40 short stories published between 1905 and 1912 in magazines such as the Boston American.

Following a trip to Europe in 1912, Futrelle and his wife May booked first class passage back to the USA on the maiden voyage of RMS Titanic, sailing from Southampton on 10 April, one day after celebrating his 37th birthday in London. Futrelle died when the ship sank in the early hours of 15 April. He had insisted his wife get into one of the available lifeboats and she survived the tragedy. Jacques Futrelle was last seen smoking a cigarette on the boat deck; his body was never recovered.

'The Mystery of Room 666' has an interesting background, too. Apparently set in England, it was published in a London periodical, 'The Story-Teller', in August 1910, after which it appears to have been completely forgotten (perhaps because it was not part of the popular "Thinking Machine" series) for many decades. It was unearthed in 1973 when Hugh Greene – thanks apparently to a Mr Jack Kelson of Tunbridge Wells – dug it out of the archives for his 'Rivals of Sherlock Holmes' series.

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