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)