Author:Melville Davisson Post

Melville Davisson Post
(1869–1930)

Melville Davisson Post

Works

• Dwellers in the Hills (1901)* (transcription project)
• The Gilded Chair (1910)*
• The Nameless Thing (1912)
• Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries (1918)
• The Mystery at the Blue Villa (1919)
• The Sleuth of St. James Square (1920)*
• The Mountain School-Teacher (1922)*
• Monsieur Jonquelle (1923) a.k.a. Monsieur Jonquelle: Prefect of Police of Paris (Originally serialized in a US newspaper as Triumphs of M Jonquelle. Some of the short stories were also published individually.) (short stories)
  • The Great Cipher — Found in the Fog — The Alien Corn — The Ruined Eye — The Haunted Door — Blücher's March — The Woman on the Terrace — The Triangular Hypothesis — The Problem of the Five Marks — The Man with Steel Fingers — The Mottled Butterfly — The Girl with the Ruby
• Walker of the Secret Service (1924) short stories (transcription project)
  • The Outlaw — The Holdup — The Bloodhounds — The Secret Agent — The Big Haul — The Passing of Mooney — The Diamond — The Expert Detective — "The Mysterious Stranger" Defense — The Inspiration — The Girl in the Picture — The Menace — The Symbol

Randolph Mason

• The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason (1896) (short stories)
• The Man of Last Resort, or, The Clients of Randolph Mason (1897)* a.k.a. The Clients (short stories)
• The Corrector of Destinies (1908)

Works from magazines

• "A Critique of Monsieur Poe" (ss, in the Saturday Evening Post, 1910)
• * After He was Dead (ss, in Atlantic Monthly Apr 1911)
• "No Defense" (ss, in the Saturday Evening Post, 1910)
• The Sport of Fortune (ss, in Harper's Monthly Oct 1911)
• "The Fortune Teller" (1918 Aug, Red Book) (ss) [Uncle Abner]
• "The Thing on the Hearth" (1919 May, Red Book) (ss)
• "The Expert Detective" (ss, Everybody's, Oct 1920) (Included in Walker of the Secret Service, 1924)
• "The Mottled Butterfly" (ss, in Red Book, Aug 1921) (Included in Monsieur Jonquelle, 1923)
• "The Man With Steel Fingers" (ss in Red Book, Sept 1921 ) (ss) (Included in Monsieur Jonquelle, 1923)
• "The Triangular Hypothesis" (ss in Red Book, Oct 1921) (Included in Monsieur Jonquelle, 1923)
• "The Inspiration" (ss, in Red Book, Dec 1921) (included in Walker of the Secret Service, 1924)
• "The Diamond" (ss, in Red Book, June 1922) (Included in Walker of the Secret Service, 1924)
• "The Laughing Woman" (ss, in the Red Book, Feb 1923)

Non-fiction

• "The Man Hunters: Scotland Yard" in the Saturday Evening Post Jan 1916
• "Mysteries of the Law" in the Saturday Evening Post, 1910
  • "The Bit of Lint" May 1910
  • "The Bit of Paper" Jun 1910
  • "The Inner Voice" Aug 1910
• "The Rule-Ridden Game" in the Saturday Evening Post Dec 1915
• "German War Ciphers" (ar, in Everybody's June 1918)