You're a detective and you have an assignment to find a client's wife. This good-time gal has found herself a nicer body and is masquerading as some other fellow's wife. So how can you find her? Simple. You get into one male body after another and become a different girl's husband each night. And you're determined to find her even if you have to be every woman's husband to do it!
Today's story is "An Eye for the Ladies" by Stephen Marlowe. It appeared in the October 1956 issue of Fantastic magazine on pages 60 to 73.
It appeared under the pen name of Darius John Granger.
Stephen Marlowe (born Milton Lesser, August 7, 1928, Brooklyn, New York - February 22, 2008 (aged 79), 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. Lesser wrote under various pseudonyms, including Adam Chase, Andrew Frazer, C H Thames, Jason Ridgway, Stephen Wilder, and Ellery Queen.
He was awarded the French Prix Gutenberg du Livre in 1988 for The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus, and in 1997 he was awarded the Life Achievement Award by the Private Eye Writers of America. He also served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America.
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