Anthony E. Pratt initially letting holiday flats. It was early in this time that Pratt worked as a solicitor's clerk, an occupation he held for about three years before retiring around 1962 (aged 59). Eventually the Cluedo patent lapsed, and in 1980 Anthony and Elva moved back to Birmingham, where they both enjoyed their retirement years. He continued to play and enjoy music and indulged his love of books including detective fiction. Anthony Pratt developed Alzheimer's disease towards the end of his life and moved into a nursing home, where he died at the age of 90. He is buried in Bromsgrove Cemetery.
The President of the United States, Detective exception, readers and critics disapproved of the story". The "Glasgow Herald" called it a "stand-out" and "stupendous"; however, "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" considers it "eccentric". The story has been cited as an early example of geoengineering in fiction. The President of the United States, Detective The President of the United States, Detective is a science fiction/mystery short story by H. F. Heard. It was originally published in "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" in March 1947, and subsequently republished in "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" in April 1969 and February 1991, in the 1949 anthology "The Queen's Awards", and in the 1975