and "MY CODE?Here it is. I'm Chester Drum, professional at violence. and "Bring me your troubles, bring me your pimps and panderers and prostitutes and extortionists and grifters and marks and dead-beats and rear-end-kissing heirs and ambulance-chasing lawyers ready to split a fee. and "Bring me your irate husbands and nymphomaniac wives and thieving sons and savage killers. and "Bring me your...hell, you get the idea. and "Violence is my trade. Trouble is my name. and " and "New series detectives continue to turn up...and one of the better recent ones is private investigator Chet Drum...Very few current writers of the tough-private-eye story can tell it more acutely than Mr. Marlowe, or with such taut understatement of violence and sex. and " - Anthony Boucher in THE NEW YORK TIMES