Photo: SVT / TT (1946)
Sample of authors
Heller, Frank
Frank Heller is a pseudonym used by the Swedish author Gunnar Serner who was among the most popular authors of light fiction in Sweden. His books have been translated to some twenty languages including English, German, French, Spanish and Russian. His stories are particularly popular in Germany.
Serner was born in Lösen in the southern province of Blekinge. His father was a vicar. When Serner ...
Literary figures
Melville Fairr
Gender: Male
It is hard to believe that New Yorker Melville Fairr is a successful private detective: he is little, with a friendly but nondescript face and a quiet voice – and he is grey: grey hair, grey eyes, always grey suits. He would rather listen than talk, but comes to quick and logical conclusions in three crime novels that Michael Venning (pseudonym for Georgiana Randolph Craig) has written about him.