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    Black Eyes and the Daily Grind
    Black Eyes and the Daily Grind
    Black Eyes and the Daily Grind
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    Black Eyes and the Daily Grind

    By Stephen Marlowe

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    Black Eyes and the Daily Grind
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    Stephen Marlowe

    Stephen Marlowe (1928–2008) was the author of more than fifty novels, including nearly two dozen featuring globe-trotting private eye Chester Drum. Born Milton Lesser, Marlowe was raised in Brooklyn and attended the College of William and Mary. After several years writing science fiction under his given name, he legally adopted his pen name, and began focusing on Chester Drum, the Washington-based detective who first appeared in The Second Longest Night (1955). Although a private detective akin to Raymond Chandler’s characters, Drum was distinguished by his jet-setting lifestyle, which carried him to various exotic locales from Mecca to South America. These espionage-tinged stories won Marlowe acclaim, and he produced more than one a year before ending the series in 1968. After spending the 1970s writing suspense novels like The Summit (1970) and The Cawthorn Journals (1975), Marlowe turned to scholarly historical fiction. He lived much of his life abroad, in Switzerland, Spain, and France, and died in Virginia in 2008. 

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      Black Eyes and the Daily Grind - Stephen Marlowe

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      Title: Black Eyes and the Daily Grind

      Author: Milton Lesser

      Release Date: October 25, 2009 [EBook #30329]

      Language: English

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      When Black Eyes needed a nap—everybody slept!

      BLACK EYES and the

      DAILY GRIND

      By MILTON LESSER

      The little house pet from Venus didn't like New York, so New York had to change.

      He liked the flat cracking sound of the gun. He liked the way it slapped back against his shoulder when he fired. Somehow it did not seem a part of the dank, steaming Venusian jungle. Probably, he realized with a smile, it was the only old-fashioned recoil rifle on the entire planet. As if anyone else would want to use one of those old bone-cracking relics today! But they all failed to realize it made sport much more interesting.

      I haven't seen anything for a while, his wife said. She had a young, pretty face and a strong young body. If you have money these days, you could really keep a thirty-five-year-old woman looking trim.

      Not on Venus, of course. Venus was an outpost, a frontier, a hot, wet, evil-smelling place that beckoned only the big-game hunter. He said, That's true. Yesterday we could bag them one after the other, as fast as I could fire this contraption. Today, if there's anything bigger than a mouse, it's hiding in a hole somewhere. You know what I think, Lindy?

      What?

      I think there's a reason for it. A lot of the early Venusian hunters said there were days like this. An area filled with big lizards and cats and everything else the day before suddenly seems to clear out, for no reason. It doesn't make sense.

      Why not? Why couldn't they all just decide to make tracks for someplace else on the same day?

      He slapped at an insect that was buzzing around his right ear, then mopped his sweating brow

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