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    Killers Are My Meat

    By Stephen Marlowe

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    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. But her husband has already taken the first step on the road to oblivion.

    Drum takes a dinghy out to Sprayregan's Chesapeake hideout. When they return, a car full of gangsters kills Sprayregan and puts Drum in the hospital. Drum doesn't mourn the man who gave him his first break, but to the new widow, he owes a debt. No matter how well connected they are, he will break the men who gunned down Gil Sprayregan.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHead of Zeus
    Release dateJun 1, 2014
    ISBN9781784087197
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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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    • 4/5
      The Chester Drum series, consisting of twenty novels published between 1955 and 1968, although obstensibly a series about a Washington D.C. private eye, is also a globe-spanning adventure and espionage series that take Drum to an exotic locale in each story. Every one of the books in this series that I have read have been excellent, full of action, well-placed, well-plotted, and filled with travel to exotic locations.

      Although on the surface, the plot may be similar to most PI novels with a murder or two, seemingly unconnected events, a femme fatale, a few rough characters, etc., these stories are so well fleshed out that it always feels like there is so much more to them.

      “Killers are My Meat” (a title which has little to do with the story) finds Drum with a series of oddly disconnected cases involving a fellow private detective and a diplomat and a connection to the Indian consulate, but soon finds him flying to India, where his PI license means nothing, to contend with a foreign culture, religious adherents, hypnosis, kidnappings, beatings, mob violence, and international intrigue.

      It is a story that is chock-full of action, hard-edged, and simply a joy to read.