Albert H.Z. Carr

Albert H.Z. Carr (January 15, 1902 – October 28, 1971) was an American writer, economic advisor, and author of economic books and detective novels. He was a consulting economist for several major corporations, an economic adviser to the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency, and a consultant to the Harry S. Truman presidency.

Albert H.Z. Carr was born Albert H. Zolotkoff Carr on January 15, 1902, in Chicago, Illinois.

After studying economics in Chicago, then at Columbia University, New York, and in London, Carr became economic advisor to President Harry S. Truman. In 1952, he published an economic book How to Attract Good Luck: And Make the Most of It in Your Daily Life. The was a bestseller and translated into several languages.

Carr was also a well-known detective novelist. In 1968, he authored The Girl With the Glorious Genes under the pseudonym "AB Carbury." In 1971, he published a detective novel Finding Maubee, set on a fictional Caribbean island called St. Caro. Published after his death, it earned Carr a posthumous Edgar Allan Poe Award for "Best First Novel." The novel was adapted in Carl Schenkel's 1989 crime drama The Mighty Quinn, starring Denzel Washington, Mimi Rogers, and James Fox. 

Carr also wrote numerous short stories published in French in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

Novels

• The Girl With the Glorious Genes (1968), first published under the pseudonym AB Carbury
• Finding Maubee (1971)

Books

• Juggernaut: The Path of Dictatorship (1939)
• Napoleon Speaks (1940)
• Truman, Stalin and Peace (1950)
• How To Attract Good Luck (1952)
• The Coming of War (1960)
• A matter of life and death: How wars get started or are prevented (1966)
• Men of Power: A Book of Dictators (1967)
• Business As a Game (1968)

• 1972 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel for Finding Maubee.

Carr was married to his wife Anne Kingsbury.

Carr died on October 28, 1971, in New York City, New York. He was 69.