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Welcome to a special episode of dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we have

some breaking news. There's a reason I'm taking a few months off from this

show this summer, which is that I have a new book coming out. This one is my

first nonfiction book. It's narrative nonfiction, sort of like a David

Grant or Eric Larson style of book. And it's about Rudolph Diesel. The name of

the book is the mysterious case of Rudolph Diesel. And he invented the diesel

engine, which he first showed to the world in 1897. So I'll give you the quick

tease of the book September 29, 1913. Less than a year before the outbreak of

World War I, Rudolph Diesel is traveling on an overnight passenger ferry from

Belgium to Britain. And at some point during the night, when he's crossing the

North Sea, he disappears. And in the morning, they hold the ship at sea for a

search. And they can't find it. They find only his hat and his coat neatly

folded on the deck of the ship under the rail by the stern in the back of the

ship. And he's disappeared. So newspapers and people around Europe and

America begin to speculate about how he died. Some think it was an accident that

he fell over the rail in the night. Maybe he was sleepwalking. Others think it

might have been suicide that he jumped off the ship in the night. And other

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