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
Anthony Neil Smith Mississippi Gulf Coast, a portion of the proceeds from his second novel, "The Drummer," was donated to Foundations For Recovery, a charitable organization servicing victims of Hurricane Katrina. Anthony Neil Smith Anthony Neil Smith is a mystery/crime fiction writer who has had over thirty of his short stories published in literary magazines and crime writing zines, and has also published numerous novels. He is co-creator of the well-received online noir journal "Plots with Guns". He was also an associate editor with the highly regarded literary magazine "Mississippi Review", having put together several special issues featuring crime fiction for the online