Frank Heller

Frank Heller was the pen name of the Swedish writer Gunnar Serner (20 July 1886 - 14 October 1947), (aged 61).

[1] His most well-known tales involve 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.

[4][5] In 1981, The Swedish newspaper Kvällsposten founded the Frank Heller Prize awarded to an author who produced a significant work in the spirit of Frank Heller that reflects his excitement, humor and sense of language.

[6] (on which Murnau's film The Grand Duke's Finances (German: Die Finanzen des Großherzogs) was based)