Andrew Carr MacKenzie
# Andrew Carr MacKenzie

Andrew Carr MacKenzie (1911–2001) was a journalist, novelist and parapsychologist from New Zealand.

He started a journalistic career and worked between 1928 and 1938 for The Evening Post of Wellington. He later moved from New Zealand to England where he became a columnist for Kemsley Newspapers.

MacKenzie was a writer of detective stories. He was vice president of the Society for Psychical Research and has been described as a leading researcher in the field of psychical research in the 1970s. He died at his home in Hove, East Sussex in 2001.

## Publications

Fiction

Police Superintendent series Branigan

* The House at the Estuary (1948)
* Search in the Dark (1948)
* Splash of Red (1949)
* Whisper If You Dare! (1950)
* The Man Who Wanted to Die (1951)
* Point of a Gun (1951)

Nicholas Cornish detective series

* Always Fight Back (1955)
* Three Hours to Hang (1955)
* A Grave Is Waiting (1957)
* The Reaching Hand (1957)
* Shadow of a Spy (1958)
* A Man From the Past (1958)
* The Missile (1959)

Non-fiction

* The Unexplained: Some Strange Cases In Psychical Research (1966)
* Frontiers of The Unknown: The Insights of Psychical Research (1968)
* Apparitions and Ghosts: A Modern Study (1971)
* A Gallery of Ghosts: An Anthology of Reported Experience (1973)
* The Riddle of The Future: A Study of Modern Precognition (1974)
* Dracula Country: Travels and Folk Beliefs in Romania (1977)
* Voting in Local Elections In New Zealand (1978)
* Hauntings and Apparitions: An Investigation of The Evidence (1982)
* Romanian Journey (1983)
* The History of Transylvania (1983)
* A Concise History of Romania (1985)
* Archaeology in Romania (1986)
* The Seen and the Unseen (1987)
* Music in Black Age (1992)
* Adventures in Time: Encounters with The Past (1997)
