The Absent-Minded Gentleman: A Scandinavian Mystery Classic Short Story

When a counterfeiting ring rocks London, the trail leads to a curiosity shop and a professor offering a treatment for 'absent-minded gentleman' - but can Detective Kenyon get to the bottom of the clever scheme?


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.

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The Absent-Minded Gentleman: A Scandinavian Mystery Classic Short Story

When a counterfeiting ring rocks London, the trail leads to a curiosity shop and a professor offering a treatment for 'absent-minded gentleman' - but can Detective Kenyon get to the bottom of the clever scheme?


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.

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The Absent-Minded Gentleman: A Scandinavian Mystery Classic Short Story

The Absent-Minded Gentleman: A Scandinavian Mystery Classic Short Story

by Frank Heller
The Absent-Minded Gentleman: A Scandinavian Mystery Classic Short Story

The Absent-Minded Gentleman: A Scandinavian Mystery Classic Short Story

by Frank Heller

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Overview

When a counterfeiting ring rocks London, the trail leads to a curiosity shop and a professor offering a treatment for 'absent-minded gentleman' - but can Detective Kenyon get to the bottom of the clever scheme?


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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788395556289
Publisher: Kabaty Press
Publication date: 01/29/2022
Series: Scandinavian Mystery Classics
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 40
File size: 2 MB
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