Mystery Writers

Despite my best intentions, it has been too long since my last post.

First is a post by Joseph Bottum over at First Things. The post is about mystery writers but is mostly a tribute to Melville Davisson Post, who wrote the Uncle Abner mystery stories in the early 20th century. (Don't try Wikipedia: there's no entry on him yet.) Along the way, the post mentions numerous fine mystery writers, including Ellery Queen and G.K. Chesterton.

As a kid I read numerous Ellery Queen stories. I had little books of them (about the size of an issue of Readers Digest), and there were more at my grandfather's old cabin (Brookside Cabin) on Shooting Creek in North Carolina. I can still remember the little bookshelf in the cabin living room. Did those make the trip to the "new" cabin?

More recently I've read and listened to G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories, which are very good, and I don't read mysteries at all these days.