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It's a little known fact today, but President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote a plot for a mystery. Roosevelt enjoyed reading mystery and detective stories. Some of them he found disappointing because they relied on familiar formulas. He came up with an idea about a wealthy man who was tired of his life and wanted to cash in his estate and disappear without a trace. Roosevelt told his story to Fulton Oursler, editor of Liberty Magazine. He lamented that he could never come to a satisfactory ending for his plot. Oursler thought the idea was wonderful and suggested presenting it to popular writers to see what they could come up with. Roosevelt gave his blessing and five writers went to work on it. None of the five knew that the plot had originated with Roosevelt. The story ended up being somewhat erratic with five different writing styles and the characters were weak. It did end up as a movie so Roosevelt has a screenwriting credit on IMDB. I think the whole story is more telling about Roosevelt himself, his feelings, and thoughts about his own life. A story about a wealthy man seeking to escape a loveless marriage and a life he found unsatisfying would have been an escapism which would certainly resonate with him. If you would like to read more background to the story, you may do so at the link below. There is also a small excerpt there. If you want to read it, you'll have to hunt down a copy. The last version was published in 1967 with an ending by Earl Stanley Gardner, famous for creating Perry Mason. http://libertymagazine.com/presidential_roosevelt.htm