Stephen Marlowe Audiobooks

Stephen Marlowe

1928–2008

A remarkably versatile storyteller, he wrote fast-moving science fiction, hardboiled mysteries, and richly imagined historical novels. He is especially remembered for creating private eye Chester Drum and for bringing figures like Columbus, Cervantes, and Poe to life in fictional autobiographies.

About the author

Born Milton Lesser in Brooklyn on August 7, 1928, he studied at the College of William and Mary and began publishing science fiction in the pulp magazines while still young. Over time he wrote under several names, but Stephen Marlowe became the signature he used for much of his mystery and later historical fiction.

His best-known crime creation was Chester Drum, a globe-trotting private detective who appeared in a long-running series that began with The Second Longest Night in 1955. Beyond mystery fiction, he also wrote science fiction and ambitious novels built around historical literary and artistic figures, including Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, Edgar Allan Poe, and Goya.

Marlowe kept working across genres for decades, building a career that was both prolific and unusually wide-ranging. He died in Williamsburg, Virginia, on February 22, 2008, leaving behind more than fifty novels and a reputation as a writer who could move comfortably from suspense to speculation to historical reinvention.

Stephen Marlowe

53 Audiobooks

A Place in the Sun

World Without Glamor

It's Raining Frogs!

The Cosmic Snare

Stop, You're Killing Me!

World Beyond Pluto

Fugue

Centauri Vengeance

Revolt of the Outworlds

Black Eyes and the Daily Grind

World of the Hunter

Prison of a Billion Years

A World Called Crimson

Voyage To Eternity

Home is Where You Left It

Finders keepers

The Thing in the Truck

Picnic

No-Risk Planet

The Old Way

Quickie

Resurrection Seven

Disaster Revisited

Summer Snow Storm

Divvy up

The Graveyard of Space

Quest of the Golden Ape

Think Yourself to Death

We Run From the Hunted!

My sweetheart's the Man in the Moon

A Cold Night for Crying

Pariah

Es Percipi

My Shipmate—Columbus

Earthsmith

Forever We Die!

Recruit for Andromeda

The One and the Many

Pen Pal

Slaves to the Metal Horde

Newshound

The Sense of Wonder

Tyrants of Time

Planet of Doom

The Dictator

Ride the Crepe Ring

Jungle in the Sky

Crack of doom

Ennui

Excitement for sale

The passionate pitchman

An eye for the ladies

The agent

About the author