Title: The Game's Afoot
Content:  The Game's Afoot (ISBN: 978-0-573-70046-0; The Game's Afoot; Or Holmes for the Holidays) is a book written by Ken Ludwig and published by Samuel French, Inc. on 14 November 2012 which later went on to win the Edgar Award for Best Play in 2012.
Title: Authors (card game)
Content:  Authors or, The Game of Authors is an educational game for three to five players. First was published by G. M. Whipple & A. A. Smith of Salem, Massachusetts in 1861, The Game of Authors was in 1897 published by Parker Brothers, also located in Salem, Massachusetts at that time.
Title: The Compleat Gamester
Content:  The Compleat Gamester, first published in 1674, is one of the earliest known English-language games compendia. It was published anonymously, but later attributed to Charles Cotton (1630–1687). Further editions appeared in the period up to 1754 before it was eclipsed by Mr. Hoyle's Games by Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769).
Title: A Game of Authors
Content:  A Game of Authors is a thriller novel written by Frank Herbert between The Dragon in the Sea (1955) and Dune (1965), and published posthumously in 2013. The plot involves an American journalist who faces danger in Mexico.
Title: The Compleat Gamester
Content:  In the mid-17th century, game literature in England took off. Initially these were translations of French books, for example on Piquet, but later more original publications appeared. The most successful of these was The Compleat Gamester, which was first published anonymously in 1674, but was attributed during the 18th century to Charles Cotton. It included instructions on how to play billiards, trucks, bowls and chess, "together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards or dice," as well as "the arts and mysteries" of riding, racing, archery and cock-fighting.
Title: Allan B. Calhamer
Content:  in other nations by various publishers. Calhamer's original face-to-face board game has also been played by mail since 1963. More recently, there are internet Diplomacy games, games run through email or in online games with a human game master. Calhamer later invented two other games, but neither achieved anything like the success of Diplomacy. Calhamer wrote a book, Calhamer on Diplomacy: The Boardgame "Diplomacy" and Diplomatic History, but the game did not provide him with a living. In the 1990s he retired from working as a mail carrier and lived his last years in La Grange Park. Calhamer also published a game of four-dimensional exploration, called "Hyper-Space." The instructions are at the Internet Archive.
Title: Elder Sign (card game)
Content:  Giaco Furino of Fearnet wrote, "If you're a Cthulhu fan this game is a must." Michael Harrison of Wired.com called it "a fun, thrilling dice game".
Title: Königrufen
Content: Kastner, Hugo and Gerald Kador Folkvord, Die große Humboldt-enzyklopädie der Kartenspiele. Humboldt (2005). ISBN: 3-89994-058-X. ; Parlett, David. A History of Card Games. Oxford: OUP (1991). ISBN: 0-19-282905-X. ; Parlett, David. Dictionary of Card Games. Oxford: OUP (1996) ISBN: 0-19-869173-4 ; Parlett, David. The Penguin Book of Card Games. London: Penguin (2008) pp. 353, 367–368. ISBN: 978-0-141-03787-5 
Title: A K Peters
Content:  Another topic frequently published by A K Peters, sparked by the interest of backer Elwyn Berlekamp, was combinatorial game theory. Their books in this area included Mathematical Go: Chilling Gets the Last Point (1994), The Dots and Boxes Game: Sophisticated Child's Play (2000), Hex Strategy: Making the Right Connections (2001), Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays (in four volumes, 2001–2004, 2nd edition, after the original two-volume edition by Academic Press in 1982), Connection Games: Variations on a Theme (2005), Lessons in Play: An Introduction to Combinatorial Game Theory (2007), and Games, Puzzles, and Computation (2009).
Title: Authors (card game)
Content: Louisa May Alcott ; James Fenimore Cooper ; Charles Dickens ; Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Washington Irving ; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Sir Walter Scott ; William Shakespeare ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Mark Twain The Game of Authors is one of the earliest versions of the family of Go Fish games, in which players call on each other to give up a named card. The play is based on a specialized deck of playing cards. The deck consists of eleven sets of four cards, each set representing the works of eleven famous British and American authors, mainly of the 19th Century. The object of the game is to form complete sets of the four cards comprising the works of a particular author. The winner is the player with the most sets. The game is the creation of Anne Abbott, a Beverly, Massachusetts clergyman's daughter and editor of a young people's literary journal. Abbott also designed the hugely popular mid-19th Century card game, Dr. Busby. Later decks included additional authors, but the authors represented in most decks are:

Question: Who is the author of The Calder Game?
Answer: Blue Balliett.