FOOLS WALK IN What do you do when you’re an English professor living with his needy sister and you pick up a young lady on the run who wants your company? You’ve played it safe all your life. You’ve let your sister call the shots, even when that means she chases other women away. Then one rainy night you stop for gas and spot a woman with a suitcase hiding in the buses. As you start to get in your car, she asks for a ride. You drop her off but next day, she’s at your front door. Your first inclination is to ask her to leave. But temptation beckons… how it beckons… and now you’re living in a secluded cabin with a gang of thieves—and they think you’re one of them! SO WICKED MY LOVE Ray Whitehead has just been dumped by his fiancé Florence. He's still carrying the diamond engagement ring when he runs into hometown girl, pretty little redheaded Cherry Drew. Feeling sorry for himself, he gives it to her, happy to be rid of the thing. How could he know that he had just opened a door to a world of gangsters, robbery and death? Because Cherry is on the run from some very tough customers she has double-crossed, and white knight Ray is suddenly just the man she's looking for. No matter that Florence soon changes her mind. Cherry has the ring, and before she's through, she's determined to have Ray all to herself—if he lives that long! “Fools Walk In is an example of transgressive noir, the subgenre in which the protagonist, presumably someone not much different from the reader, crosses over to the noir side.”—David Rachels “This is Fischer at his terrifying best.”—Morning Telegraph, New York “… holds the attention with an iron grip, and when it ends, it leaves a mark.”—Nicholas Litchfield Bruno Fischer was born in Berlin, Germany, on June 29, 1908. He emigrated with his family to the U.S. in 1913, and was educated at the Rand School of Social Sciences (established by the American Socialist Party). Fischer became a sports reporter for the Long Island Daily Press in 1929, and followed this with stints at the Labor Voice and the Socialist Call, even running as a Socialist candidate for the New York state senate. He then turned to fiction, selling his first story, a horror tale, in 1936, followed by many more pulp stories and mystery novels, including the Ben Helm series. His last novel, The Evil Days, written after a lengthy writer’s block, is considered by many to be his best. He passed away during a Mexican vacation on March 16, 1992.