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 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