Friedrich Glauser in Münsingen 1931 Limmat Verlag CC BY-SA 3.0
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Glauser, Friedrich
The Swiss author Friedrich Glauser was born in Vienna. His mother was Austrian and his father was from Switzerland. Glauser's life can best be described as a series of disasters. His mother died when he was four years old, his father remarried and young Friedrich had a hard time adapting to his father's strict regime. He was sent to boarding school in Switzerland and was sent down, officially...
Literary figures
Nate Heller
Gender: Male
His father was a police officer and Nathan ‘Nate’ Heller was one too. But he allowed himself to be corrupted, and instead became a successful private detective in the gangster-infected Chicago of the 1930s. He is of early middle age, morally rather lax, but he has a pleasant attitude and socialises with some of the city’s (real!) artists and criminals in a series of stories by Max Allan Collins.