Frank Heller was the pseudonym of Gunnar Serner, who was the first internationally famous Swedish crime writer. The son of a clergyman, to avoid arrest after a financial fraud he left Sweden for the continent. After losing the swindled money in a casino in Monte Carlo, he tried his hand at writing novels with immediate success, and produced forty-three novels, short stories and travelogues before his death in 1947.
"A detective story of the sort which positively will not allow the
reader to put it down until the very end has been reached." -Daily
News (London)
"With a single exception, the work of Frank Heller is the best
Swedish crime fiction written during the first half of the
twentieth century and is still both readable and interesting."
-John-Henri Holmberg, A Darker Shade of Sweden
"A master of mystery...easily the finest mystery tale we have run
across for some months...a brilliant yarn." -The Sketch
"Let me recommend to you the works of Mr Frank Heller, a Swedish
writer of capital mystery tales." -Illustrated London News
"A really good story." -The Queenslander
"Cleverly told, and rather better than the usual detective story."
-Country Life Stock and Station Journal
"An ingenious and amusing tale." -Sheffield Daily Telegraph
"A brightly told story which has many attractive features." -Dundee
Courier
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