Sinclair Gluck (1887-1956)

He was born in Buffalo and was educated at the Manlius Military Academy in New York and the University of London. During WWI, he served with the British Army in Mesopotamia and then on the Western Front. Returning home, he briefly edited an automobile trade magazine The Commercial Vehicle, before becoming a crime fiction writer from 1922. He went on to author 23-books, many of which were first published in the U.K. His stepfather, J. Hughes Massie, was the literary agent for Agatha Christie and Elinor Glyn among others, which accounted for his book deal with publishers Mills & Boone, of London. In 1928, the Los Angeles Saturday Night wrote that he, "knows what the tired businessman wants in the way of detective divertissement. Nothing profound, of course, but action, swift action throughout, harrowing situations, blood-curdling episodes, bank robberies...". In 1925, while living in New York City as an up-and-coming author, he married Nancy, daughter of Duncan Campbell Lee, Associate Professor of Oratory at Cornell University and owner-publisher of The Ithaca Daily News who later moved to Highgate in London where Nancy grew up. They had two daughters.