Bruno Fischer (29 June 1908 – 16 March 1992) was a German-born American author of weird and crime fiction.
With journalism providing an unreliable income, at a friend's recommendation Fischer tried his hand at writing for the pulps.
[10] An early member of the Mystery Writers of America,[11] he was the editor of one of their annual short story collections, 1953's Crooks' Tour, and he is known to have written at least one erotic novel in 1970 (Domination, Olympia/Ophelia Press) under the pen name "Jason K.
[2][12] His last novel was 1973's The Evil Days, written after the demands of his job and a lengthy writer's block had greatly reduced his output.
Following this he spent his later years between a summer home in a socialist cooperative community in New York's Putnam County (the Three Arrows Cooperative Society) and the Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende, where he sometimes gave lectures to the expatriate retirees about his adventures as a mystery writer.
[1] Fischer himself described his "usual manner" of writing as containing "movement and suspense with very little violence" and as being about "ordinary people in extraordinary situations".
[13] His novels sold some 10 million copies and his works were translated into 12 languages, but by the time of his death he had largely faded into obscurity like many crime writers of his era.