The Mysterious Case Of Rudolf Diesel
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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I is a 2023 nonfiction book by Douglas Brunt, an instant New York Times bestseller (hardcover: Atria Books, 384 pages; paperback 2024; audiobook narrated by Scott Brick). It blends biography with a true-crime investigation into the disappearance of Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the diesel engine, who vanished from the steamship Dresden on September 29, 1913, while crossing between Belgium and England.
Brunt traces Diesel's rise from poverty to multimillionaire and examines the two powerful figures who stood to lose from his petroleum-free engine — Kaiser Wilhelm II and John D. Rockefeller — before presenting his own "astonishing new conclusion" about Diesel's fate, weighing accident, suicide, and murder.