Melville Davisson Post

A retired insurance investigator with an itch, an adventurer from China, a curious lawyer, an opera buff and a Sherlock Holmes emulator are the stars of British Mystery Multipack Volume 10 - British Super Sleuths Hunted Down by Charles Dickens Lady Alicia's Diamonds by Robert Barr Dead Men's Money by J. S. Fletcher The Sleuth of St. James's Square by Melville Davisson Post The Daffodil Mystery by Edgar Wallace

First published in 1918, Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries is an anthology of detective stories written by Melville Davisson Post. The popular stories within this collection were serialized in national magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post in the early 20th century.Uncle Abner is an amateur detective in present-day Harrison County, West Virginia. Throughout his journeys around this antebellum wilderness, long before the nation had a proper police system, the honest Uncle Abner is confronted by murders and mysteries that cannot be ignored. With uncanny intuition, impressive logic, and keen observation of human actions, Uncle Abner is Melville Davisson Post's most celebrated literary creation and is considered to be one of the most important texts in American detective and crime fiction.This new edition contains an introduction by Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire novels.