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
Virgil Tibbs
Gender: Male
Since he is an Afro-American, he is arrested as a murder suspect in a little town in Mississippi by a racist sheriff – but he can identify himself as a police detective from Pasadena in California. Despite opposition from the town’s inhabitants, he helps the local police to solve the case. The sophisticated, low-key bachelor Virgil Tibbs returns later in a further half-dozen detective stories by J...