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Futrelle, Jacques

The American journalist and author Jacques Heath Futrelle made sure there was room for his wife in a lifeboat before he went down with the Titanic. He was only thirty-seven years old when he drowned, taking six or seven recently finished short stories about the original amateur sleuth, the super-intelligent genius Professor Augustus S.F.X Van Dusen, known as The Thinking Machine, into the...

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Jonas Mørck

Gender: Male

When the reader first gets to meet him, he is a detective sergeant with the Danish Rejsehold – a sort of Danish FBI – but he gets older in the books by Danish author Poul Ørum, and eventually retires, although he still continues to be involved in murder investigations. Jonas Mørck is a dutiful and conscientious police officer, and after the death of his wife he has a deep understanding for peopl...

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