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Friday, March 2, 2018

FFB: The Nameless Thing - Melville Davisson Post

THE STORY:  There are actually seven of them.  This is one of those quasi-novels which came about by stringing together seven short stories previously published in a variety of magazines between 1908 and 1911. The framing story is "The Nameless Thing", an impossible crime about a fearful man who converted his house into a fortress with bars on all the windows and installed a series of locks and bolts in all his rooms. He is found dead in his locked and barred library, the room a disaster of overturned furniture and broken glass, a pool of blood beneath the dead man's head and a revolver still clutched in his hand. Three men are at the scene of the crime and while pondering the seemingly impossible fatal assault on Wilfred Druce they each decide to tell one another of some strange crimes they were involved with.

CHARACTERS:  The three men entertaining one another with odd tales of crime and misdeeds are a priest, a lawyer and a judge.

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