Friedrich Glauser

Friedrich Charles Glauser (February 4, 1896 in Vienna – December 8, 1938 in Genoa) was a German-language Swiss writer. He was a morphine and opium addict for most of his life, and begun writing his novel Thumbprint while he was an inmate at Waldau, a Swiss insane asylum.

One of Germany's best-known crime writing awards is the Glauser prize.

Bibliography

Novels

• 1932 - Der Tee der drei alten Damen
• 1935 - Wachtmeister Studer; English translation: Thumbprint, 2004
• 1935 - Die Fieberkurve; English translation: Fever, 2006
• 1936 - Matto regiert; English translation: In Matto's Realm, 2005
• 1936 - Gourrama
• 1937 - Krock & Co. (aka Die Speiche); English translation: The Spoke, 2008
• 1938 - Der Chinese; English translation: The Chinaman, 2007
• 1980 - Morphium