Uncle Abner (Library of Congress Crime Classics)

Post, Melville Davisson

ISBN 10: 146423776X / ISBN 13: 9781464237768

Published by Poisoned Pen Press, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Uncle Abner (Library of Congress Crime Classics)
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 146423776X
• ISBN 13: 9781464237768
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

First published in 1918, this collection of tales of Abner's investigations, told by his nephew and chronicled by the prolific Melville Davisson Post, was hailed as the most important volume of American crime fiction since the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

"It is a world…filled with the mysterious justice of God!"

 The titular Uncle Abner is a man with extraordinary powers of observation, a close reader of the Bible, and a towering code of morality, and he does not shy from taking matters into his own hands when the law is too slow or too blind to dispense justice. A landowner in nineteenth-century West Virginia, Abner is a fountainhead of God's wisdom and justice for the territory. Post's stories and novels were highly popular, appearing in national magazines and book form. Though the stories are little read today, there is nothing old-fashioned about the terrible crimes committed in the backwoods or Abner's extraordinary skills as an observer of men and evil.

About the Author

LESLIE S. KLINGER is the two-time EdgarŽ winning editor of New Annotated Sherlock Holmes and Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s. He has also edited two anthologies of classic mysteries and, with Laurie R. King, five anthologies of stories inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon. Klinger is the series editor of Library of Congress Crime Classics, a partnership of the Library of Congress and Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks. He is a former Chapter President of the SoCal Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America and lives in Malibu, California.