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 Mystery of the Sea Leipzig, Heinemann, and Balestier. This particular series was an effort to bring English fiction to the continent, and Stoker himself invested in the company. Heinemann published another edition of the novel in 1914, as did the London company Rider. The beginning of the book was published as a short story called "The Seer" in "The London Magazine" in 1901. There have been various reprints and e-book editions of "The Mystery of the Sea" during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, many of which are accessible online. "The Mystery of the Sea" has two important layers of historical context: the