Author
Augusta Groner
1850–1929 3 volumes Mystery & Crime
The life
Augusta Groner was an Austrian schoolteacher who invented one of the first professional detectives in German fiction: Joseph Muller, a small, shabby police official whose own criminal record keeps him poor and unpromotable, and who pities the murderers he catches. Written in Vienna decades before the city became a byword for psychology, the Muller cases were widely translated and made her Austria's answer to Conan Doyle.
Where to start
The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow
48 pages — the shortest way into Groner, not the greatest.
Joseph Muller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police, is one of the great experts in his profession.
Paintings from these volumes
In the library