Frank Heller

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Frank Heller

Frank Heller was the pen name of the Swedish writer Gunnar Serner (20 July 1886 - 14 October 1947), (aged 61). He wrote a string of light books about shady business transactions in an international milieu. His best known works concerned the recurring character Philip Collin, who was simultaneously a detective and a thief. He was uncle to the actor Håkan Serner.

Bibliography

• The Emperor's Old Clothes, 1923 New York (also published as The Chinese Coats, London 1924) translated by Robert Emmons Lee (1888-1925)
• The Marriage of Yussuf Khan, Crowell New York 1923, Hutchinson & Co London 1924, translated by Robert Emmons Lee (1888-1925)
• The Grand Duke's Finances, translated by Robert Emmons Lee (1888-1925)
  • on which Murnau's film The Grand Duke's Finances (German: Die Finanzen des Großherzogs)
• The Perilous Transactions of Mr. Collin, 1924, likely the same as:
• The London Adventures of Mr. Collin, 1923, translated by Pauline Chary
  • Collection of the following short stories:
  • The story of the absent-minded gentleman
  • The sorrowful adventures of Mr. Isaacs
  • The mystery of the lost bullion
  • Mr. Collin becomes a landlord
  • Mr. Collin's holliday agency
  • The blue-eyed lie
• Mr. Collin is Ruined, 1925
• The Strange Adventures of Mr. Collin, Crowell New York 1926
• The Thousand and Second Night, An Arabesque. Williams & Norgate, London, 1926, translated by Robert Emmons Lee (1888-1925)
• Lead Me into Temptation, Crowell New York 1927, translated by Robert Emmons Lee (1888-1925)
• Twilight of the Gladiators, 1944

External links

• Works by Frank Heller at Project Gutenberg