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Let me quote John Conquest, author of a precious reference book ("Trouble is Their Business"): "Combining exotic locales with no-stop action, (Stephen) Marlowe produced hardboiled international detectitve stories that won considerable critical respect, (Anthony) Boucher remarking on his acute storytelling and taut undestatement of sex and violence."This is the first Chester Drum mystery and a very good one.Don't miss it.
InterestingI wasn't sure what to expect with this story. I'm intrigued now. Chet Drum is one of those characters who definitely fits the genre of hard boiled 1930-1950s detective stories. Interesting to see how it all played out.
I'm old, my dad was even older. He was a Mess Hall Sargent. Like a lot of Mess Hall Sargents, his appreciation for reading and photography came about mostly by reading literary magazines like Stag and Male. I'm guessing my dad would have really liked this guy.Only problem is, dad and I didn't always see things eye to eye.That's all I'm gonna say.
Synopsis: to find his ex-wife's killer, Washington DC PI Chester Drum takes on the Communist Party.
Milton Lesser, who wrote Sci-Fi under his real name, wrote PI hard-boiled pulps under Marlowe. The first Drum case with sparse writing, hard-boiled but didn't totally beat my drum. 3.5 stars.
"The Second Longest Night" was the first of twenty Chester Drum mystery/adventures, one of the greatest tough guy series ever written. Although towards the beginning of this book Drum talks about reading Mike Hammer novels as a nod to the great Mickey Spillane, tough guy Drum is no carbon copy.Based in Washington D.C., ex-FBI agent Drum runs a small private investigator's office and his cases often stumble over international affairs, diplomats, and Cold War politics. He is also a globe-trotting
This book was written during the height of the Communist witch hunts and since P.I. Chester drum works out of D.C., it was a matural subject.Drum is hired by his ex-father-in-law, Senator Hartsell, to investigate the death of his daughter Deidre, Drum's ex. It had been a short marriage lasting only three months. She thought his friends to rough, he thought hers to snooty. An apparent suicide, father thought different.Drum gets involved with Commies(apparently Deidre had been a party member), a j...
