It was almost a perfect caper. Except when Wally the driver got shot. If he had died right away, it would of simplified things. But cold-blooded Oscar, the brains of the caper, had a simple solution. He just needed a knife. But now that the caper was...
The first of the seven days covered in this novel was (till evening) like any other weekday for Caleb Dawson-solid citizen, commuter, wry observer of life. In the morning his pretty wife drove him to work. At 6: 19 pm she was again at the station in ...
That body of hers wasn’t one I could forget. So fat that was all I knew about her.But even if I had known all about her, what she really was, it wouldn’t have changed anything. Because it had already started when she walked into my room in her ba...
Paul Flagg was a man on the spot and was in trouble--bad trouble: His ex-wife had vanished, leaving her new husband's corpse in his closet--A big-time racketeer was threatening to kidnap his son--The beautiful daughter of a Congressman offered him he...
All-star athlete Harry Wilde retreats to a remote rural village to escape the pain of a failed marriage and the recent loss of the national basketball championship. Seeking only peace of mind, he soon finds himself entangled in an intense and demeani...
Bruno Fischer was born in Germany in 1908, and emigrated to the United States with is family in 1913. Two of his most famous novels are The Restless Hands and The Evil Days. His plots revolve around the common man, who is put into a situation where h...
“Would you like to have her, Ape?” Ape Jones laughed. “Then take her upstairs,” the man’s voice was incredibly casual.Ape Jones lifted the woman off her feet. White and limp, she lay across his powerful arms. Her eyes were open but they had...
The Dead Don't Die and Other Stories by Bruno FischerFrom a frame-up for murder, to the jewels at the center of a family curse, Bruno Fischer writes about some very bad people.Death's Bright Red Lips (1946) – When a woman tries to throw her ar...
The Restless Hands by Bruno FischerThe Restless Hands – Rebecca Sprague was a beautiful girl but the very fact of her beauty brought death and terror. Beneath the the serenity of Hessian Valley lurks the mysterious strangler with eager fingers...
Bruno Fischer, one of the most prolific and widely read detective story writers of the 1940's and 1950's, has pulled out all the stops in the 70,000 word novel, The Spider Lily.He has put together a yarn that is not only fast-moving and exciting, but...