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
The Undying Fire (Pratt novel) The Undying Fire (Pratt novel) The Undying Fire is a science fiction novel by Fletcher Pratt. It was first published in both hardcover and paperback by Ballantine Books in 1953. The novel has also been translated into Italian. The book is an expansion of the author's novella "The Conditioned Captain," originally published in the magazine "Startling Stories" in the issue for May, 1953. The story involves an interstellar expedition to steal a neptunium motor from the planet Danaan, punctuated by various political and romantic complications. Groff Conklin, writing in "Galaxy Science Fiction", called the book "tenuous," rating it "far below