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Stephen Marlowe

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Born: August 06 1928

Died: 2121 02 20082008

Aka Milton S. Lesser, Adam Chase, Andrew Frazer, Jason Ridgway, C.H. Thames.

Stephen Marlowe 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 .

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 and The Cawthorn Journals , Marlowe turned to scholarly historical fiction. He lived much of his life abroad, in Switzerland, Spain, and France, and died in Virginia in 2008.

Marlowe received the Shamus Award, "The Eye" in 1997.

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Stephen Marlowe

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Books from Stephen Marlowe

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales

Tamburlaine

The Lighthouse at the End of the World

The Hardboiled Mystery MEGAPACK ®: 4 Classic Crime Novels

The Graveyard of Space

The Eighth Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack: Milton Lesser

Colossus: A Novel about Goya & a World Gone Mad

The Anglers of Arz

The Second Longest Night

Homicide Is My Game

Drum Beat - Dominique

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Month Of Mystery - Book One

Mecca for Murder

Drumbeat – Berlin (The Chester Drum Mysteries Book 16)

The Lady Had Wings

The Valkyrie Encounter

Death Is My Comrade

Translation

Double in Trouble

The Shining