MELVILLE DAVISSON POST:

This is Post's output, with year of publication, alternate titles (if any), Swedish titles, and the detective of the story. There are also two uncollected short stories (nos. 12-13).

UA = Uncle Abner
RM = Randolph Mason
HM = Sir Henry Marquis

  1. THE STRANGE SCHEMES OF RANDOLPH MASON 1896 (Randolph Mason: The strange schemes)
    (RM)

    1. The animus furandi
    2. The corpus delicti
    3. The error of William van Broom
    4. The man of the Jimmy
    5. The sheriff of Gullmore
    6. Two plungers of Manhattan
    7. Woodford’s partner

  2. THE MAN OF LAST RESORT; OR, THE CLIENTS OF RANDOLPH MASON 1897 (Randolph Mason: The clients)
    (RM)

    1. Mrs. Van Bartan
    2. Once in jeopardy
    3. The governor’s machine
    4. The grazier
    5. The rule against Carper

  3. THE CORRECTOR OF DESTINIES 1908 (Randolph Mason, corrector of destinies)
    (RM)

    1. An adventure of St. Valentine’s night
    2. Madame Versay
    3. My friend at bridge
    4. The Burgoyne-Hayes dinner
    5. The copper bonds
    6. The danseuse
    7. The district-attorney
    8. The interrupted exile
    9. The intriguer
    10. The last check
    11. The life tenant
    12. The Pennsylvania pirate
    13. The virgin of the mountain

  4. THE NAMELESS THING 1912

  5. THE MYSTERY AT THE BLUE VILLA 1919

    1. Behind the stars (Against the sky of the theater) ~
    2. Lord Winton’s adventure ~
    3. The ally
    4. The Baron Starkheim
    5. The girl from Galacia (Some girl) ~
    6. The girl in the villa ~
    7. The great legend
    8. The laughter of Allah
    9. The miller of Ostend
      Mjölnaren i Ostende
    10. The mystery at the blue villa ~
    11. The new administration ~
    12. The pacifist ~
    13. The sleuth of the stars ~
    14. The stolen life
    15. The sunburned lady ~
    16. The wage-earners ~
    17. The witch of the Lecca ~

  6. THE SLEUTH OF ST. JAMES’S SQUARE 1920
    Sir Henrys bedrifter
    (HM)

    1. A satire of the sea
    2. American horses
    3. The cambered foot (The man from America)
    4. The end of the road
    5. The fortune teller
    6. The hole in the mahogany panel
    7. The house by the loch
    8. The last adventure
    9. The lost lady
    10. The man in the green hat
    11. The pumpkin coach
    12. The reward (Five thousand dollars reward)
    13. The spread rails
    14. The thing on the hearth
    15. The yellow flower
    16. The wrong sign (The witness of the earth)

  7. MONSIEUR JONQUELLE, PREFECT OF POLICE 1923

    1. Blücher’s march
    2. Found in the fog
    3. The alien corn
    4. The girl with the ruby
    5. The great cipher
      Det hemliga budskapet
    6. The haunted door
    7. The man with steel fingers
    8. The mottled butterfly
    9. The problem of the five marks
    10. The ruined eye
    11. The triangular hypothesis
    12. The woman on the terrace

  8. WALKER OF THE SECRET SERVICE 1924

    1. The "mysterious stranger" defense
    2. The big haul
    3. The bloodhounds
    4. The diamond
    5. The expert detective
    6. The girl in the picture
    7. The holdup
    8. The inspiration
    9. The menace (The man who threatened the world)
    10. The outlaw
    11. The passing of mooney
    12. The secret agent
    13. The symbol (The great symbol)

  9. THE BRADMOOR MURDER 1929 (The garden in Asia)

    1. The blackmailer
      (HM)
    2. The Bradmoor murder
      (HM)
    3. The cuneiform inscription
    4. The garden in Asia
    5. The hole in the glass
      (HM)
    6. The phantom woman
      (HM)
    7. The stolen treasure
      (HM)

  10. THE SILENT WITNESS 1930

    1. The cross examination (The forgotten witness)
    2. The dead man’s shoes
    3. The guardian (Colonel Braxton chooses a client)
    4. The guilty man
    5. The heir at law
    6. The invisible client
    7. The leading case
    8. The mark on the window
    9. The metal box (The witness in the metal box)
    10. The mute voices (Colonel Braxton hears the silent voices/The great game)
    11. The survivor (No way to win)
    12. The vanished man
    13. The white patch

  11. THE COMPLETE UNCLE ABNER 1977
    (UA)

    1. A twilight adventure
      En skymningsepisod
    2. An act of god (The three threads of justice)
    3. Naboth’s vineyard
      Naboths vingård
    4. The adopted daughter (The instrument of darkness)
    5. The age of miracles (Dead man's gloves)
    6. The angel of the Lord (The broken stirrup-leather)
    7. The concealed path
    8. The devil’s tools
    9. The Doomdorf mystery
      Doomdorfmysteriet
    10. The edge of the shadow
    11. The hidden law
      Den mystiska lagen
    12. The house of the dead man
    13. The mystery of chance
    14. The riddle
    15. The straw man
    16. The tenth commandment
    17. The treasure hunter
    18. The wrong hand
    19. The dark night
    20. The devil’s track
    21. The god of the hills
    22. The mystery at Hillhouse





  12. The marriage contract 1908

  13. The tree in the forest 1984 *


~ These are the criminous stories in the collection.
* Written together with John F. Suter


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