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Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was an American author, born in West Virginia. Although Post's name is not immediately familiar to those outside specialist circles, many of his collections are still in print and many collections of detective fiction include works by Post. His best-known character is the mystery-solving, justice dispensing Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner. He also created two other recurring characters, Sir Henry Marquis and Randolph Mason. He also wrote two non-crime novels. His works include: The Man of Last Resort (1897), Dwellers in the Hills (1901), Corrector of Destinies (1909), The Gilded Chair (1910), The Nameless Thing (1912), Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries (1918), The Sleuth of St. James's Square (1920), The Mountain School- Teacher (1922), Monsieur Jonquelle: Prefect of Police of Paris (1923), Walker of the Secret Service (1924) and The Revolt of the Birds (1927).
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Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was a lawyer, political insider, and candidate for President of the United States (Democrat, 1924). He was one of the really great writers of the detective short story and is ranked in the same class as Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Melville Davisson Post (1869 1930) was a West Virginia author and attorney best known for his stories featuring Uncle Abner, an amateur detective and backwoodsman who solves mysteries and hands out justice in the years before the Civil War. Post s other iconic creation is the amoral lawyer Randolph Mason, whose exploits on behalf of his criminal clients helped to establish the legal thriller genre.
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- PublisherDodo Pr
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1409973476
- ISBN 13 9781409973478
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages33
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