Melville Davisson Post
Melville Davisson Post (born April 19, 1869 in Romines Mills , West Virginia , † June 23, 1930 in Clarksburg , West Virginia) was an American detective writer . His crime stories about "Uncle Abner", which appeared from 1911 on, made him known.
As early as 1896 Post had published a first collection of detective stories, but even without his bible solid hero uncle Abner in Virginia of the 19th century determined. In this regard, the first anthology was published in 1918, about which contemporaries commented extremely positively: Anthony Boucher , for example, found the detective stories "the best (...) since Poe", SS Van Dine saw Abner in a row with Dupin , Lecoq (from Émile Gaboriau ) and Holmes .
Post is considered to be one of the first representatives of psychological detective literature in America. His stories developed out of the characters of the characters involved. The Uncle Abner cases are told by Abner's little nephew (a child) who accompanies him constantly, which was a completely new idea in the crime fiction genre at the time.
Translated into German, Post appeared once in 1975 with Uncle Abner, the master detective .
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| SURNAME | Post Office, Melville Davisson |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American detective writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Romines Mills , West Virginia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1930 |
| Place of death | Clarksburg , West Virginia |