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Stephen Marlowe

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Stephen Marlowe (1928–2008) was the author of more than fifty novels, including nearly two dozen featuring globe-trotting private eye Chester Drum. Born Milton Lesser, Marlowe was raised in Brooklyn and attended the College of William and Mary. After several years writing science fiction under his given name, he legally adopted his pen name, and began focusing on Chester Drum, the Washington-based detective who first appeared in The Second Longest Night (1955). Although a private detective akin to Raymond Chandler’s characters, Drum was distinguished by his jet-setting lifestyle, which carried him to various exotic locales from Mecca to South America. These espionage-tinged stories won Marlowe acclaim, and he produced more than one a year before ending the series in 1968. After spending the 1970s writing suspense novels like The Summit (1970) and The Cawthorn Journals (1975), Marlowe turned to scholarly historical fiction. He lived much of his life abroad, in Switzerland, Spain, and France, and died in Virginia in 2008. 

Stephen Marlowe Books

Divvy Up book cover

Divvy Up

Stephen Marlowe
Jeopardy Is My Job book cover

Jeopardy Is My Job

Stephen Marlowe
Mecca for Murder book cover

Mecca for Murder

Stephen Marlowe
Recruit for Andromeda book cover

Recruit for Andromeda

Milton Lesser
The Hardboiled Mystery MEGAPACK ®: 4 Classic Crime Novels book cover

The Hardboiled Mystery MEGAPACK ®: 4 Classic Crime Novels

John Roeburt
Model for Murder book cover

Model for Murder

Stephen Marlowe
The Eighth Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: Milton Lesser book cover

The Eighth Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: Milton Lesser

Milton Lesser
The Quest of the Golden Ape book cover

The Quest of the Golden Ape

Stephen Marlowe
Summer Snow Storm book cover

Summer Snow Storm

Stephen Marlowe
Think Yourself to Death book cover

Think Yourself to Death

Stephen Marlowe
Voyage to Eternity book cover

Voyage to Eternity

Stephen Marlowe
World Beyond Pluto book cover

World Beyond Pluto

Stephen Marlowe
Black Eyes and the Daily Grind book cover

Black Eyes and the Daily Grind

Stephen Marlowe
The Dictator book cover

The Dictator

Stephen Marlowe
Earthsmith book cover

Earthsmith

Stephen Marlowe
The Graveyard of Space book cover

The Graveyard of Space

Stephen Marlowe
Home is Where You Left It book cover

Home is Where You Left It

Stephen Marlowe
The One and the Many book cover

The One and the Many

Stephen Marlowe
A Place in the Sun book cover

A Place in the Sun

Stephen Marlowe
The Second Longest Night book cover

The Second Longest Night

Stephen Marlowe
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