Adrian Vogler

Adrian Vogler writes historical crime novels and literary series driven by a deep love of storytelling. For him, writing is less a vocation in the traditional sense than his favourite hobby: a form of reading through his own means. Just as others devour books, he develops stories, characters and investigative worlds — out of curiosity, enthusiasm and a desire to immerse himself in atmospheric worlds.

His work deliberately navigates between two poles: the classic detective fiction of the early 20th century and original, genre-spanning investigative worlds. His literary formative years began with Sherlock Holmes, particularly with the peculiar tension of "The Hound of the Baskervilles", where rational deduction meets a quiet, barely tangible threat. This interplay of logic and unease remains at the heart of his storytelling to this day.

A second formative figure was Charlie Chan, first discovered in the cinema of the 1930s, particularly in the films starring Warner Oland. The combination of politeness, analytical acuity and a subtle sense of the uncanny later led to a literary engagement with the novels of Earl Derr Biggers. With the ‘New Charlie Chan Canon’, Adrian Vogler continues the detective’s story in standalone cases set in the 1930s and 1940s, including Charlie Chan’s Christmas, a deliberate homage to the classic Christmas crime novel.

Alongside these tradition-conscious series, Adrian Vogler develops his own investigative worlds, in which classic deduction meets technological and existential frontiers. The steampunk crime series “The Investigations of Cyrus Li and D. Chess” combines Victorian aesthetics, alternative history and cosmic horror.

For Adrian Vogler, writing is, above all, a passionate way of experiencing stories, developing them further and sharing them with others.