UNCLE ABNER, MASTER OF MYSTERIES (18 Detective Tales in One Volume)
By Melville Davisson Post
- Release Date: 2016-05-29
- Genre: Historical Mysteries
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Uncle Abner, the mystery solving West Virginian backwoodsman, is the best-known literary creation of Melville Davisson Post. Uncle Abner solved the mysteries that confronted him in a backwoods West Virginia community, immediately prior to the American Civil War and before the infant nation had any proper police system. He had two great attributes for his self-imposed task: a profound knowledge of and love for the Bible, and a keen observation of human actions. One example of Uncle Abner's keen deductive skills is his showing a deaf man had not written a document, because a word in it was phonetically misspelt. The first one of these tales, "The Angel of the Lord", is perhaps the very first work in the historical mystery genre.
Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was an American author, born in West Virginia. Although his name is not immediately familiar to those outside of specialist circles many collections of detective fiction include works by him. Post's best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner.
Table of Contents:
The Doomdorf Mystery
The Wrong Hand
The Angel of the Lord
An Act of God
The Treasure Hunter
The House of the Dead Man
A Twilight Adventure
The Age of Miracles
The Tenth Commandment
The Devil's Tools
The Hidden Law
The Riddle
The Straw Man
The Mystery of Chance
The Concealed Path
The Edge of the Shadow
The Adopted Daughter
Naboth's Vineyard
