Jacques Futrelle is today remembered mainly for his S F X Van Dusen "Thinking Machine" stories, of which he wrote many, and also for dying on the Titanic.
He also wrote a number of novels of varying types.
This 30,000 word novella involves the discovery of a process for manufacturing large, perfect, jewel-quality synethic diamonds at low cost, causing alarm in the diamond centre of New York; and then the inventor of the process is found murdered . . .
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