Anthony E. Pratt Birmingham that manufactured components for tanks. Working on a drilling machine, he found the work tedious, but it gave him time to think, including about the ideas behind Cluedo. It was during the Second World War that Pratt had the idea for a murder mystery board game. The idea for Cluedo came from his days spent playing musical concerts in country hotels where part of the evening's entertainment would have been murder mystery games. These would involve both actors and hotel guests playing the characters in a plot which involved the murder of one or more of the guests. The
Chinese crime fiction called Deep Hatred (恨海), published by "Kanbun Taiwan nichinichi shinpō" (漢文臺灣日日新報), but the work has not been finished yet. Qiu Xiaolong was a significant contributor to English-language Chinese crime fiction in the United States. He was born in Shanghai, but following the Tiananmen Square Protests he decided to remain in the US. Throughout his career he published nine crime-thriller/mystery novels. This includes the "Death of a Red Heroine, When Red is Black" and "A Case of Two Cities." Specifically, "Death of a Red Heroine" was named the best first novel in 2001 at the Anthony Awards. These novels touches on