Stephen Marlowe

Drum looks for a missing American in a sea of degenerate expats An American has vanished in Spain, and it's his father, not his wife, who wants him found. When Chester Drum arrives in Iberia, legs aching from the three-thousand-mile flight, he finds Andrea Hartshorn not panicked, not mourning, but hosting the party of the year. World-weary expatriates mill about the villa, guzzling her liquor and dancing, without a thought for their missing countryman....

One of the most unforgettable characters from the golden era of science fiction, Johnny Mayhem is a shapeshifter who can assume the guise of any person. In the pulse-pounding short story "A Place in the Sun," Mayhem is ordered to save a spacecraft that is on a direct collision course with the Sun. Will he be able to pull off this Herculean task before it's too late? As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction,...

A sadistic KGB colonel hires Drum to locate a dead man Axel Spade would not have liked the way he died. An international fugitive, Spade would have preferred being gored by a bull or gunned down by Interpol to dying quietly in his bed. But a weak heart claimed him in his sleep, and so Chester Drum, Washington PI and the closest thing Spade had to a friend, scatters his ashes in the Atlantic.   Drum's old flame, Marianne Baker, is by his side, but...

Four Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here: "Planet of Doom", "No-Risk Planet", "Revolt of the Outworlds", and "Forever We Die!" all by Stephen Marlowe.

A drive-by killing puts Drum on the scent of a Washington sex scandal When Chester Drum first took a crack at detective work, PI Gil Sprayregan offered to split a case with him, giving the rookie half the fee and more credit than he deserved. Years later, Drum is established and Gil is at the tail end of a long, slow fall, drinking heavily and considering blackmail to make ends meet. When he gets in over his head, Sprayregan's wife begs Drum to help....

Three Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here: "Think Yourself to Death", "Es Percipi", and "Newshound" all by Stephen Marlowe.

A kidnapped intellectual and a dead partner take Drum to South America When Andy Dineen tires of the FBI, he jumps ship for Langley and joins the CIA to fight the Cold War in Berlin. After years in the spy game, he grows sick of the paperwork, and is considering his options when an old friend, private detective Chester Drum, offers him a job. Drum is surprised when his old academy classmate takes him up on it, and shocked when it gets Dineen killed....

To recover his license, Drum must unlock the mystery of a professor's suicide Duncan Hadley Lord seems too happy to kill himself. But then, he has no reason to sleep around, either. For three months the history professor has carried on an affair with a call girl, and for the last few weeks Chester Drum and his partner, rookie PI Jerry Trowbridge, have watched him do it. When Lord steps onto a fourth-story window ledge on Homecoming night, Drum gets...

Great collection of action short stories by Stephen Marlowe from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "Voyage To Eternity", "The Dictator", "Prison of a Billion Years", and "Recruit for Andromeda".

Great collection of action short stories by Stephen Marlowe from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "World Beyond Pluto", "Think Yourself to Death", "Summer Snow Storm", "Quickie", and "The Graveyard of Space".