I've enjoyed all the comments on Stephen Marlowe. He's one of
my heroes, and the thrill of the Monterey Bouchercon, for me,
was getting to sign at the table next to him. I have a photo
of me and him that my wife took. Back in the '50s, he was
everywhere in the SF digests of the second rank, particularly
Imagination, Imaginative Tales, and Amazing Stories. I've
been buying a lot of those on eBay (and got sniped on one
today by our own Bob Toomey), and sometimes Marlowe wrote
entire issues under various names. His output in those days
was amazing, rivaling that of Robert Silverberg. I have to
agree with Richard Moore that his Chester Drum novels
probably aren't the best of Gold Medal, but they're certainly
entertaining, and I liked some of the later ones (with the
women's names in the titles) even better than the earlier
ones. I just finished reading the Ace reprint of Violence is
Golden (not a Drum novel), and the hero gets knocked out
twice within the first hundred pages. They don't write 'em
like that any more.
Bill Crider
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