Auguste Groner

Auguste Groner (née Kopallik; 16 April 1850 − 7 March 1929), was an Austrian writer internationally notable for detective fiction. She also published under the pseudonyms Olaf Björnson, A. of the Paura, Renorga, and Metis.

Life Auguste Groner was born in Vienna in 1850, the daughter of an accountant. One of her brothers was the painter Franz Kopallik, and another was the theologian Josef Kopallik. She was educated in Vienna, both at the painting school at the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna and at the Vienna woman's teacher training institute. From 1876 to 1905 she worked as a primary school teacher in Vienna. In 1879 she married Richard Groner, a journalist and lexicographer. Around 1882 she began writing, initially juvenile fiction and historical fiction.

Selected works

Joseph Müller novels and stories: The Secret of New Year's Eve (novella) 1890, (Translated also as The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow) The Golden Bullet (novella) 1892, (Translated also as The Case of the Golden Bullet) Who is it? (short story) 1894 How I Was Murdered (novella) 1895, (Translated also as The Case of the Registered Letter) The Confessional Secret (novella) 1897 The old gentleman (novella) 1898 Why she extinguished the light (novel) 1899, (Translated also as The Case of the Lamp That Went Out) The Pharaoh's Bracelet (novel) 1900 The House in the Shadow (novella) 1902 The Blue Lady (novel) 1905, (Translated as The Lady in Blue, 1922) Lush Grass (short story) 1905 The man with the many names (novel) 1906 The Black Cord (novel) 1908, (Translated as The Man with the Black Cord, 1911) The Red Mercury (novel) 1910 The Cross of the Welser (novel) 1912 The Secret of the Hermitage (novel) 1916 The Pentagram (novella) 1916 The Wandering Light (novel) 1922