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)
• The Mystery at the Blue Villa (1919)
• The Sleuth of St. James Square (1920)*
• The Mountain School-Teacher (1922)*
• Monsieur Jonquelle (1923) a.k.a. Monsieur Jonquelle: Prefect of Police of Paris (Originally serialized in a US newspaper as Triumphs of M Jonquelle)
• Walker of the Secret Service (1924) short stories (transcription project)

Randolph Mason

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

Works from magazines

• "A Critique of Monsieur Poe" (ss, in the Saturday Evening Post, 1910)
• * After He was Dead (ss, in Atlantic Monthly Apr 1911)
• "The Laughing Woman" (ss, in the Red Book, Feb 1923)
• "No Defense" (ss, in the Saturday Evening Post, 1910)
• The Sport of Fortune (ss, in Harper's Monthly Oct 1911)
• "The Expert" in Everybody's magazine, Oct 1920 [included in Walker of the Secret Service] (1923)]}}
• "The "Mysterious Stranger" Defense" in Everybody's magazine, June 1921 [included in Walker of the Secret Service (1923)]

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
• "German War Ciphers" (ar, in Everybody's June 1918)