Stephen Marlowe (born Milton Lesser, August 7, 1928 in Brooklyn, NY, died February 22, 2008 (aged 79), in Williamsburg, Virginia) was anAmerican author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe. He is best known for his detective character Chester Drum, whom he created in the 1955 novel The Second Longest Night. Lesser also wrote under the pseudonyms Adam Chase, Andrew Frazer, C.H. Thames, Jason Ridgway and Ellery Queen. In this book: The Graveyard of Space Voyage To Eternity Summer Snow Storm A Place in the Sun Prison of a Billion Years World Beyond Pluto The Dictator Black Eyes and the Daily Grind The One and the Many Earthsmith