Bruno Fischer Twofer

Earlier this month, Stark House Press reissued two excellent novels by bestselling author Bruno Fischer (1908 – 1992). Fischer was an incredibly prolific writer of genre fiction during the Forties and Fifties when pulp magazines thrived.
This latest twofer includes the novels Fools Walk In, published in 1951, and So Wicked, My Love, from 1954. The essay “Fischer’s Foolish Teacher and the Wicked Redhead,” by the editor of Lowestoft Chronicle, introduces the collection.

William Ard’s Timothy Dane Series

A recent collection from Stark House Press, published in December 2022, features a couple of highly absorbing 1950s hardboiled mysteries by prolific novelist William Ard. The two adventures in this volume include Cry Scandal, from 1956, and The Root of His Evil, published in 1957 and reprinted as Deadly Beloved the following year. It also contains “Timothy Dane: A Hardboiled Combination of Toughness, Compassion, And Quiet Humor,” an essay by Nicholas Litchfield, the editor of Lowestoft Chronicle, in which he discusses the history of the Timothy Dane series.