Frank Kenney
Frank Kenney was a crime novel series published by Dreyer Publishing House . The series, which appeared from 1949 to 1950 and was written by Wilhelm Löbsack , remained without an author.
Hero and plot
The hero uses all the technical means of his time and also uses things that still do not work that way or that at least had not yet left the research stage at the time - thus an early representative of literary high-tech crime novels.
Born in 1917 to a Chicago newspaper publisher and millionaire, he graduated from school and university with honors, was a master in many sports and even won a decathlon medal at the Berlin Olympics at the age of nineteen. In addition, the protagonist is fluent in nine languages, can at least make himself understandable in many others and belonged to a small force for special operations of the American armed forces. Nevertheless, he is “humble, very companionable, brave to the point of recklessness, he is obsessed with an indomitable love of freedom.” This makes him a dangerous opponent and a favorite of women.
Wilhelm Löbsack said in an interview for Der Spiegel on February 21, 1951: “Murder is always possible, even has to be. Visions of future research results, a lot of atom blasting and bacterial contamination pull well. ... pornography and politics are canceled. ... dialogues are always good. - action, action! People have to jibble. And then it is important to cut the scenes correctly when they are most exciting! ”Politics was taboo for Löbsack because he was imprisoned for 38 months for his 2000 Nazi speeches - Löbsack was the head of Gau propaganda in Gdańsk at the time of National Socialism .
Tools
Some of the tools he uses are: a pistol that shoots mini-missiles; an automatic transmitter in the heel, so that it can always be carried out; Pocket parachutes that can also be used to fly upwards; a super dynamite bomb to be kept in the hollow tooth; a multi-purpose wristwatch with additional functions including photography; a chemical-technical special case with which almost nothing is impossible; a harmless-looking diamond ring that can emit a blue laser beam ; a freeze bomb that turns an entire harbor into an ice desert within half an hour, and an electrically charged wire that snakes out of the trouser leg to the enemy.
swell
- Heinz J. Galle: Folk books and book novels. Forays into popular entertainment literature for over 100 years . DvR, Lüneburg 2005–2006
- Volume 1: The boom after 1945 . 2005, ISBN 3-8334-3232-2
- Frank Kenney on Schwarzefledermaus.de
- It gets on my nerves . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1951 ( online - 21 February 1951 ).