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Frank Heller was the
pen name
A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name.
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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
John Gunnar Håkan Serner (1 September 1933 in Malmö – 25 October 1984 in Stockholm) was a Swedish actor.
Family
He was nephew to Frank Heller, and stepfather to Malin Gjörup.
Awards
In 1977 Serner received the award for Best Actor at the ...
.
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
''The Grand Duke's Finances'' (german: Die Finanzen des Großherzogs) is a 1924 silent German comedy film directed by F. W. Murnau.
Plot
The Grand Duke of Abacco is heir to a small and heavily indebted Mediterranean island. The Grand Duke is ...
'' (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:
[https://www.worldcat.org/title/london-adventures-of-mr-collin/oclc/1455680 ]
** 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
References
External links
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Swedish-language writers
1947 deaths
1886 births
Swedish male novelists
20th-century Swedish novelists
20th-century Swedish male writers
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