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Melville Davisson Post (April 19, 1869 – June 23, 1930) was an American writer, born in Harrison County, West Virginia. [1] Although his name is not immediately familiar to those outside of specialist circles, many of his collections are still in print, and many collections of detective fiction include works by him.
Uncle Abner is a fictional character and the protagonist of a series of mystery stories by mystery author Melville Davisson Post.The Abner stories are considered benchmarks of the locked room mystery, and, being set in the 1840s, are among the earlier examples of the historical mystery sub-genre.
Melville Davisson Post's Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries collection (1918) The historical mystery or historical whodunit is a subgenre of two literary genres, historical fiction and mystery fiction. These works are set in a time period considered historical from the author's perspective, and the central plot involves the solving of a mystery ...
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Novelists who write historical mysteries, a genre that combines historical fiction and the whodunit/detective story. Pages in category "Writers of historical mysteries" The following 95 pages are in this category, out of 95 total.
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Melville had long been interested in blending historical facts with his fiction, but they were usually based in some of his personal experience. Before writing The Confidence-Man , Melville sent his friend Nathanial Hawthorne suggestions on how to adapt a real-life anecdote about a woman who waited for her husband for 17 years as a short story.