About the Author
Robert Fish is the Edgar-award winning author of over 30 novels and countless short stories. Fish was born in Ohio and 1912 and studied mechanical engineering at Case University. While working as an engineer in Brazil, Fish wrote his first short story, which was published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. His experiences in Brazil also provided some of the key details for his first novel, The Fugitive. Unrelated to the popular television show and movie of that name, The Fugitive features a concentration camp survivor who travels to Brazil incognito in the early 1960's to infiltrate a burgeoning Nazi-revivalist movement. The novel won Mr. Fish an Edgar for Best First Mystery.

Fish wrote many more novels centering on Interpol detective Jose daSilva, who first appears in The Fugitive. They include: Isle of the Snakes (1963), Brazilian Sleigh Ride (1965) and The Xavier Affair (1969). Fish's novels often feature recurrent characters. Lieutenant Clancy, who first appears in 1963's Mute Witness reappears in The Quarry (1964) and Police Blotter (1965). Mute Witness, which was later reprinted as Bullitt, was turned into a movie starring Steve McQueen as Lieutenant Clancy.

Robert Fish died in 1981 in Connecticut.