author
Sinclair Gluck
1887–1956
A prolific American mystery writer of the interwar years, he turned out brisk, atmospheric crime novels that often mixed hard-boiled tension with puzzle-plot intrigue. His work also reached the screen, with fiction adapted for film in the 1920s and 1930s.
2 Audiobooks
Shadow in the House
by Sinclair Gluck
The house of the missing
by Sinclair Gluck
About the author
Born Jasper Sinclair Gluck in Buffalo, New York, in 1887, he wrote under the name Sinclair Gluck and built a substantial career in mystery and crime fiction. Library catalogs and reader databases credit him with more than twenty works, including Shadow in the House, while film references link his novel The Last Trap to the 1936 movie The Dark Hour.
His fiction is generally associated with the energetic crime writing of the years between the world wars. Modern crime-fiction bibliographies and reference pages place him among the many dependable pulp-era and popular mystery authors whose books blended suspense, detection, and underworld danger.
Gluck died in Los Angeles, California, in 1956. A verified memorial page identifies him as Jasper Sinclair Gluck and gives his dates as October 26, 1887, to October 21, 1956.