Stephen Marlowe

Stephen Marlowe (born Milton Lesser, (1928-08-07)August 7, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, died February 22, 2008(2008-02-22) (aged 79), in Williamsburg, Virginia) was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Goya, Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe.

He is best known for his detective character Chester Drum, whom he created for the 1955 novel The Second Longest Night.

Thames, Jason Ridgway, Stephen Wilder, and Ellery Queen.

Lesser attended the College of William & Mary, earning his degree in philosophy, marrying Leigh Lang soon after graduating.

In the later part of his life he lived with his second wife Ann in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Milton Lesser c.1953
Lesser's novella "All Heroes Are Hated!" was the cover story for the November 1950 issue of Amazing Stories .
Lesser's short novel "Secret of the Black Planet" was the cover story for the June 1952 issue of Amazing Stories .
Lesser's novella "Voyage to Eternity" was cover-featured for the July 1953 issue of Imagination .
Lesser's novella "Jungle in the Sky" was the cover story in the second issue of If in May 1953.
As "C. H. Thames", Lesser wrote the "Johnny Mayhem" stories, which were published in magazine Amazing during the 1950s but were not collected until 2013.
As "Stephen Marlowe", Lesser wrote several mystery novels.