Stephen Marlowe 21 min read

A body-hopping detective hunts a runaway wife who's hiding in someone else's skin, by becoming a different woman's husband every night.

Stephen Marlowe's 1956 story (as Darius John Granger) runs a wonderfully lurid premise: an investigator who inhabits one male body after another to track a soul-swapping good-time gal masquerading as other men's wives. Cheeky, inventive psi-powers pulp with a noir-comic voice. Read it for a fast, funny, gleefully convoluted body-swap detective romp.

In its time

Published in 1956, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

21 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Llewellyn