pickThe Doomdorf Mystery by Melville Davisson Post: Forming a 2-person posse to deal with Doomdorf and his moonshine still, Uncle Abner and Squire Randolph arrive to find their quarry dead in a classic locked-room mystery. They have two suspects, the dead man's abused 'wife' and a manic mountain preacher, both suspects whom confess to the crime! 👇🏼
pick"The Superfluous Finger" by Jacques Futrelle: A couple of pages in and I was certain that I'd read this story before and, while I do have it in another collection of detective stories, "More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Cosmopolitan Crimes", I haven't yet read that. My perplexity lasted for some time, until I remembered the 1970s TV series, The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, which I have on DVD. Checking that, the mystery was solved... ?
pickThe Greek legend of Atreus and Thyestes provides a pattern for the theft of the letter and, perhaps, though the analogy is not exact, of the secret substitution of the original letter with its facsimile. Most interestingly, that Dupin and D- are brothers is suggested in a number of ways: they have the same initial; D- has a poet brother, and Dupin modestly comments on his own attempts at 'doggerel'; by the equivalence of intellect that Dupin..👇🏼
pickAn anthology of detective and mystery stories published in 1944. Editor, Maurice Richardson, has selected an interesting and diverse collection of stories of consistently high quality. Even where there are some superficial similarities, such as a couple of the protagonist being writers of mystery stories who solve 'real' crimes, their characterisation is distinct enough to feel different and fresh as you move from one tale to the next.
American Detective Stories | 
The photo is of the author of the Uncle Abner stories, who looks quite the character! 6y