Bruno Fischer
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Description
Bruno Fischer was born in Germany in 1908, the son of a grocer. His family emigrated to the United States in 1913. After high school, he attended the Rand School of Social Sciences, which was established by the American Socialist Party. Fischer married in 1934. He was a sports reporter, rewrite man and police reporter for the Long Island Daily Press from 1929-1931. He began writing fiction full-time in 1936, and went on to write hundreds of mystery, detective, and weird menace stories for just about every magazine under the sun, using both his own name and the pseudonymous Russell Gray. Fischer’s first hardcover mystery novel, So Much Blood, was published by Greystone Press in 1939. His primary series character, private investigator Ben Helm, first appeared in 1945 in The Dead Men Grin. Fischer left the pulps and hardcover fiction behind in the early 1950s, and in 1969 he gave up writing to assume the positions of executive editor of Macmillan's Collier Books and education editor of the Arco Publishing Company, both of which he held for over a decade.
Books
The Lady Kills
Old Cleave should have known better than to use a whip. But no man ever knew what Beth would do. Her father suspected that she enjoyed killing. Her husband learned the truth too late. And I saw it happen. Saw her and wanted her, and understood least of all Another of Fischer's later titles, first published in 1951. The Lady Kills is spread out across years, with a newspaperman, a gambler, a young boy, the woman they all loved, and that oh-so-special way she treats her lovers. Special, and deadly.
House of Flesh
In the forebidden old house, guarded by vicious dogs, Liyed, exotic, mysterious Lela. Lust ruled there, the neighbors said, and deed were done there that were wanton and eerie.
The Bleeding Scissors
The Bleeding Scissors is a suspense novel involving a man whose wife suddenly and inexplicably turns up missing, a New York City play called The Virgin Mistress, an apparent hit-and-run death, and a villainous private detective.
Quoth the Raven
There is no e-book available for this book. Also, most of the few titles that one can borrow have their pages cut off top and bottom.