Steve Fisher
Personal Information
Description
Stephen Gould Fisher was born in Marine City, Michigan and raised in Los Angeles, California, where he attended Oneonta Military Academy until age sixteen when he left to join the U.S. Navy. He served in the submarine service for four years, during which time he wrote stories which he sold to U.S. Navy and Our Navy. After he left the Navy, he moved to Greenwich Village, New York to write full-time. In 1934, he published his first story, “Hell’s Scoop,” in Sure-Fire Detective Magazine. He wrote for the pulps into the 1950s. He also crossed over into slick magazines such as Liberty, Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, and Cosmopolitan. He moved to Hollywood to work on screenplays and novels. He died of a heart attack at his home in Canoga Park, Los Angeles at age 67.
Books
Song of the thin man
At a charity gambling benefit aboard the S.S. Fortune, the tables are hot, the jazz is hotter and before you know it, a bandleader's body is growing cold. They're playing your song, Nick and Nora Charles!
Roadblock
An L.A. insurance detective is increasingly attracted to a girl he meets on an airplane trip, even though he sees her as a chiseler. She makes it clear that her tastes are too expensive for him, so he sets about getting a lot of money quickly, if illegally. Perhaps too late, she realizes she is content with him just the way he is.