Uncle Abner Master of Mysteries Author:Melville Davisson Post 18 of the best American detective short stories since Poe. In the hills of Virfinia, Uncle Abner brought justice to places where the law seldom reached. Melville Davisson Post's classic tales, which inspired William Faulner's Uncle Gavin stories, are models of detective fiction, tantalizing in plot, ingenious in solution. Under Post's unwaver... more »ing hand, Uncle Abner and his Watson-like companion, county justice Randolph, rise far above the flat portrayals of fictional detectives to join the enduring characters af American literature.« less