J. J. Fiechter was born to a Swiss family in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1927. He worked for many years as an historian, writing books on a wide range of subjects from the French Revolution to Egyptology...ver maisJ. J. Fiechter was born to a Swiss family in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1927. He worked for many years as an historian, writing books on a wide range of subjects from the French Revolution to Egyptology. In 1994, he won France’s Grand Prize for Detective Fiction for Death by Publication, also published by Arcade.ver menos