The Simple Case of Susan
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As a young woman, Susan was among New York's most desirable beauties. Despite her elusiveness, she too fell captive to the institution of marriage. Now "a demure, sedate wife, enslaving as she was enslaved," she finds herself torn between devotion and desire when an old flame returns to her life. The Simple Case of Susan is a novel by Jacques Futrelle.
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Jacques Futrelle (1875-1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. Born in Georgia, he began working for the Atlanta Journal as a young sportswriter and later found employment with The New York Herald, the Boston Post, and the Boston American. In 1906, he left his career in journalism to focus on writing fiction, producing seven mystery and science fiction novels and a popular series of short stories featuring gifted sleuth Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen. In April 1912, at the end of a European vacation, he boarded the RMS Titanic with his wife Lily. Although a first-class passenger, he insisted that others, including his wife, board a lifeboat in his place. He is presumed to have died when the passenger ship sunk beneath the frigid Atlantic waves.
