Drumbeat – Dominique

Drumbeat – Dominique
Author: Stephen Marlowe
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2012-04-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453252622

DIVDrum confronts a senator to save the life of a drunken old friend/div DIVWhen Chester Drum knew him, Jack Morley was a Washington player, just a few promotions away from becoming Secretary of State. A bad divorce and a nervous breakdown later, Morley has hit rock bottom, and works in Paris for the Army ghoul squad, confirming the deaths of World War II soldiers long ago reported missing in action. Morley is content to spend the rest of his life wallowing in the bottom of a Pernod bottle, until word gets out that he is blackmailing a US senator—an accusation that could cost him his life./divDIV /divDIVThough disgusted by his old friend’s drunkenness, Drum agrees to make Morley’s case to the senator. Blackmailer or no, Morley has stumbled onto a conspiracy that dates back to the end of the war. If Drum can’t get to the bottom of it, Morley won’t be the only one to die./div

Drumbeat – Dominique

Drumbeat – Dominique
Author: Stephen Marlowe
Publisher: Overamstel Uitgevers
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2012-04-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9049984924

Drum confronts a senator to save the life of a drunken old friend When Chester Drum knew him, Jack Morley was a Washington player, just a few promotions away from becoming Secretary of State. A bad divorce and a nervous breakdown later, Morley has hit rock bottom, and works in Paris for the Army ghoul squad, confirming the deaths of World War II soldiers long ago reported missing in action. Morley is content to spend the rest of his life wallowing in the bottom of a Pernod bottle, until word gets out that he is blackmailing a US senator—an accusation that could cost him his life. Though disgusted by his old friend’s drunkenness, Drum agrees to make Morley’s case to the senator. Blackmailer or no, Morley has stumbled onto a conspiracy that dates back to the end of the war. If Drum can’t get to the bottom of it, Morley won’t be the only one to die.

Drumbeat – Berlin

Drumbeat – Berlin
Author: Stephen Marlowe
Publisher: Overamstel Uitgevers
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2012-04-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9049984932

An old flame’s fiancé is missing, and only Drum can save him from the Soviets Chester Drum will never love another woman the way he loves Marianne. After years of on-and-off romance, he tells her that his work as a private detective is too dangerous for him to ever marry, so she ends the affair and moves to West Berlin, to report on the Cold War from its front lines. There she falls in love with Quentin Hammond, ace foreign correspondent, and Drum is happy for her until her new man disappears behind the Iron Curtain. She telegraphs for help, and Drum is on the next plane. Hammond was close to winning the scoop of the century, by cooperating with an exiled East German dissident to tunnel beneath the Berlin Wall and free thousands of people from the other side. Before they could complete their audacious scheme, though, the Stasi kidnapped them. Only Drum has the skills to go behind the wall and return with the man who’s stolen the woman he loves.

Drumbeat – Erica

Drumbeat – Erica
Author: Stephen Marlowe
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2012-04-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453252584

DIVProtecting an actor takes Drum into the seedy underworld of psychedelia/div DIVTerminal illness and regret go hand-in-hand. Two months ago, Amos Littlejohn was in the prime of life, and had plenty of energy to be enraged when his pregnant daughter was abandoned by her husband, matinee idol Ahmed Shiraz. Now stricken with leukemia, Littlejohn is near death, and beginning to regret taking out a contract on the actor’s life./divDIV /divDIVHe hires international private eye Chester Drum to call off the hit and protect Shiraz until his life is safe. On his first night on the job, Drum’s partner takes a shotgun blast meant for the actor. Wanting nothing more than to wring Shiraz’s neck, Drum follows him to Europe, where he must contend with assassins, beatniks, and the powerful effects of an experimental drug called LSD./div

Private Eyes

Private Eyes
Author: Robert Allen Baker
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1985
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780879723309

Private Eyes is the complete map to what Raymond Bhandler called "the mean streets," the exciting world of the fictional private eye. It is intended to entertain current PI fans and to make new ones.

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 5

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 5
Author: Ed Gorman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2004-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 076531147X

An annual collection of more than thirty mystery stories from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Germany includes pieces by such names as Ruth Rendell, Ed McBain, Barbara Hambly, Ian Rankin, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Homicide Is My Game

Homicide Is My Game
Author: Stephen Marlowe
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2012-12-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453290214

DIVWhen Drum picks up a hitchhiker, trouble follows her into the car/divDIV A monsoon is hammering Washington, DC, when Chester Drum spots Anita Sparrow on the roadside in the middle of the night. Sixteen, frail, and soaking wet, she is trying to find help for her brother, Donny, a photographer with cerebral palsy who was beaten nearly to death a mile up the road. Drum takes Donny to the hospital and drives Anita home, where he finds her house ransacked, her brother’s darkroom destroyed. It seems Donny took a picture of something he wasn’t supposed to see, and powerful men will kill to ensure the negative is never developed./divDIV /divDIVOn top of it all, Drum soon learns that the Sparrows have ties to some of the biggest names inside the Beltway, and Anita is not as innocent as she appears. Her family story simmers with pornography, corruption, and murder—not polite topics for dinner table conversation, but ones that make Chester Drum feel right at home. /div