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Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries (1918)

de Melville Davisson Post

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"An anthology of detective stories by Melville Davisson Post"-- "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. "--… (mais)

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Maybe 2½ stars. These short mystery stories are not mysteries in the contemporary sense - they aren't whodunits which the reader has a chance to figure out the culprit. Rather, they are crime stories which show the darker corners of human nature. Post's main character, Uncle Abner, was interesting but not enough for me to want to read more. The style was sort of a cross between Washington Irving and Arthur Conan Doyle, which I found trying at times. The setting was a bit muddled - in some of the stories, it is clearly before 1860 (there are still slaves & the region described is part of Virginia instead of West Virginia) while in others there are indications that it is supposed to be the 1890s ("200 years since the massacre of Glen Coe"). (

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leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 |

Excellent stories, really atmospheric; set in the backwoods of Virginia before the Civil War. According to Wikipedia, Post wrote 22 stories featuring Uncle Abner; this collection has 18; these are so good I think it worth the trouble to seek out the others. (

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gmenchen | Jan 3, 2020 |

Stories set in rural 19h century Virginia --though when is not clear --Ellery Queen describes it as being the" Jeffersonian Era" and Doomdorf in the famous and often-reprinted first story is said to have served with Iturbide in Mexico (c.1822) and does not appear to be more than middle-aged. But the next story contains obvious references to Reconstruction. Abner himself is a powerful character with a strong flavor of an oLd Testament prophet dispensing his own form of divine justice, backed by shrewd deductive powers --but I do not understand in "Angel of the Lord" why he gives a murderer a hundred dollars to flee the country with. The narrator is Abner's young nephew Marton, 9 years old at the time of that third story, though a very mature 9. (

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"An anthology of detective stories by Melville Davisson Post"-- "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. "--

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