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 mystery writer. Familiarity made ​​him his detective stories to "Uncle Abner ," which appeared in 1911.

In 1896 Post had published a first collection of detective stories, though still without his bible fixed heroes Uncle Abner, determined in the Virginia of the 19th century. In this regard appeared in 1918, the first anthology to which contemporaries expressed extremely positive: Anthony Boucher felt the detective stories, for example, as " the best (...) since Poe " SS Van Dine saw Abner after all in a row with Dupin, Lecoq and Holmes.

Post is one of the first members of a psychological detective fiction in America. His stories developed out of the character of the people involved. The cases to Uncle Abner Abner be of little nephew ( a child ) tells that constantly accompanies him what time it was a completely new idea in the genre of crime fiction.

Translated into German appeared post once in 1975 with Uncle Abner, the master detective.