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Uncle Abner
Paperback
Series: Library of Congress Crime Classics
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $15.99
ISBN13: 9781464237768
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: Jun 17 2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.62 Depth: 8.44
Language: English
First published in 1918, this collection of tales of Abner's investigations, told by his nephew and chronicled by the prolific Melville Davisson Post, was hailed as the most important volume of American crime fiction since the work of Edgar Allan Poe.
It is a world...filled with the mysterious justice of God!
The titular Uncle Abner is a man with extraordinary powers of observation, a close reader of the Bible, and a towering code of morality, and he does not shy from taking matters into his own hands when the law is too slow or too blind to dispense justice. A landowner in nineteenth-century West Virginia, Abner is a fountainhead of God's wisdom and justice for the territory. Post's stories and novels were highly popular, appearing in national magazines and book form. Though the stories are little read today, there is nothing old-fashioned about the terrible crimes committed in the backwoods or Abner's extraordinary skills as an observer of men and evil.
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