Uncle Abner

Uncle AbnerFirst published in 1918, this collection of tales of Abner's investigations, told by his nephew and chronicled by the prolific Melville Davisson Post, was hailed as the most important volume of American crime fiction since the work of Edgar Allan Poe. The titular Uncle Abner is a man with extraordinary powers of observation, a close reader of the Bible, and a towering code of morality, and he does not shy from taking matters into his own hands when

and Poppy are just a few of the twenty-one rambunctious

seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face of American slavery

James Cook “Endeavor”

The details of this fascinating political drama have been pieced together from firsthand reporting and an unrivaled array of sources

Despite his prolific career as the first US federal photographer

four strangers are dining at an exclusive gentleman's club

666 casualties

Illustrated by Daniel Salmieri

Dimensions: 8

a poor student

These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory

a stuttering prophet