Author:Melville Davisson Post

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Melville Davisson Post (1869–1930)

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American author of mystery novels. Best known for the creation of the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner. The 22 Uncle Abner tales, written between 1911 and 1928, have been called some of "the finest mysteries ever written."

Melville Davisson Post

Works

• Dwellers in the Hills (1901)* (transcription project)
• The Gilded Chair (1910)*
• The Nameless Thing (1912)
• Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries (1918) short stories
• The Mystery at the Blue Villa (1919)
• The Sleuth of St. James Square (1920)*
• The Mountain School-Teacher (1922)*
• Monsieur Jonquelle (1923) (Originally serialised in a US newspaper under the title Triumphs of M Jonquelle)

Randolph Mason

• The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason (1896)*
• The Man of Last Resort, or, The Clients of Randolph Mason (1897)* a.k.a. The Clients (short stories) (transcription project)
• The Corrector of Destinies (1908)

Works from magazines

• "A Critique of Monsieur Poe" (ss, in the Saturday Evening Post, 1910)
• "No Defense" (ss, in the Saturday Evening Post, 1910)

Non-fiction

• "The Man Hunters: Scotland Yard" in the Saturday Evening Post Jan 1916
• "Mysteries of the Law" in the Saturday Evening Post, 1910
  • "The Bit of Lint" May 1910
  • "The Bit of Paper" Jun 1910
  • "The Inner Voice" Aug 1910
• "The Rule-Ridden Game" in the Saturday Evening Post Dec 1915