Fourteen mysteries from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, the Metropolitan, Red Book, and Pictorial Review magazines featuring Uncle Abner, who solves crimes in the pre-Civil War West Virginia hill country. His weapons are keen observation, logic, and a fundamentalist’s belief in the victory of good over evil. Melville Davisson Post’s historical mysteries have been favorably compared to those of his fellow American Edgar Alan Poe. ( Winston Tharp)
Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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BC Admin
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Genres for the project: Crime & Mystery Fiction; Historical Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: west virginia, historical mystery, pre-civil war
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The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording! START of recording (Intro):
"Chapter [number] of Selected Uncle Abner Mysteries. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Say: "Selected Uncle Abner Mysteries, by Melville Davisson Post. [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:
"Chapter [number] of Selected Uncle Abner Mysteries by Melville Davisson Post. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Only if applicable, say: "[Chapter title]"
END of recording:
At the end of the section, say: "End of [Chapter]"
If you wish, say: "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
At the end of the book, say (in addition): "End of Selected Uncle Abner Mysteries, by Melville Davisson Post. "
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.
Example filename uncleabnermysteries_##_post_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. uncleabnermysteries_01_post_128kb.mp3)
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Upload your file with the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader Please use your BC login and password
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You'll need to select the MC, which for this project is: dlolso21
When your upload is complete, you will receive a link - please post it in this thread.
Thanks for taking on this project, David. I’m doing a selection of 14 stories from the book, “Uncle Abner Master of Mystery,” not the book. They were all previously published in various magazines. I’ll get started recording while we’re waiting for a DPL to show up.
Winston
Be kind. Be interesting. Be useful. Morality ain't hard.--Jack Butler, Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock
You have every right to do a selection, if you choose.
Would you be interested in opening this up to a group project and letting other readers take on the 4 stories you don't plan to read? Since this book is not in the Librivox catalog it would be nice to get it all recorded and published.
Looking at the Librivox page for Melville Davisson Post ( https://librivox.org/author/2362 ) the only thing I see already recorded from this text is "The Angel of the Lord", in Short Ghost and Horror Collection 014.
Thanks, but I'd like to leave this as a solo, David. Someone else might want to do the book as a group project to provide "choice of voice." I've populated the MW with the stories I'll read.
Winston
Be kind. Be interesting. Be useful. Morality ain't hard.--Jack Butler, Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock
Thanks, Helen. Glad you liked it. Tony Hillerman included it in his collection of best American mysteries, which got me interested in doing this project.
Winston
Be kind. Be interesting. Be useful. Morality ain't hard.--Jack Butler, Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock
Just wanted to let you know that I haven’t given up on this. We’re on vacation, and I won’t be back at the computer until July 10. Will try to make up for lost time then.
Winston
Be kind. Be interesting. Be useful. Morality ain't hard.--Jack Butler, Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock
