#melville davisson post

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The Sleuth of St. James's Square. Melville Davisson Post. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1920. First edition. Original dust jacket.

"In the far corners of the earth and in the most intimately known places the reader travels. In delightful suspense he follows the destinies of singers, hoboes, mock priests, beautiful Creoles, sinister hunchbacks, and German officers to their inevitable climax. He assists in the secret molding of Indian rupees, and Indian Buddhas, the beautiful jewels of the orient dangle before his eyes, it is his triumph when the stolen plates of the U. S. Government bonds are finally traced."

[mote-historie]

Władysław T. Benda, There was a woman standing in the door as though posed in the dark wood of a frame, Published in: The Sunburned Lady by Melville Davisson Post, Hearst's magazine, December 1918.

Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

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MELVILLE DAVISSON POST | THE BRADMOOR MURDER

[books0977]

The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason. Melville Davisson Post. New York: Putnam's Sons, 1896. First edition.

"In 1896 Melville Davisson Post made the first of his two momentous contributions to the detective-crime short story. The publication of The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason introduced the first 'criminal' lawyer in detective fiction ... The character of Randolph Mason was an important and historic innovation."

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