The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow

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If you love short stories and you are looking for a light reading, you will enjoy The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Augusta Groner.

Fans of detective fiction will find this great novel by Augusta Groner hugely entertaining, though the investigator working on the case is radically different from any other famous detectives such as Sherlock Holmes and Monsieur Lecoq. Joseph Muller, a secret service detective of the Imperial Austrian Police is ingenious in his own way – plain and small in physical appearance, withdrawn, shy and modest in character, Muller solves the unusual case of the pocket diary in his own, very unique way, facing the twists that come his way in a manner true to his character. The diary found in the snow tells about a murder and Muller is ready to pick up each thread he comes upon, to look into each and every clue and piece of evidence in his humble and empathic way and to make discoveries that take a brilliant detective to make.

Augusta Groner, the author, is every bit as unusual as her detective. Born in 1850 in Vienna, Groner was the daughter of a government clerk. She married a journalist, she worked as a school teacher and started writing in 1882. In the beginning she wrote poems and literature for children and turned towards detective fiction only in 1890. She published numerous crime novels, all of them featuring detective Muller, the very first character of this kind in Austrian literature.

Readers who enjoy Conan-Doyle and Agatha Christie stories will surely find The Case of the Pocket Diary a refreshing read – the story is not as intricate and intriguing as you would expect of a story featuring Miss Marple, Poirot or Holmes, for that matter, but Muller is certainly among the best detectives in world literature.
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