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"The Thing in the Truck"은 스티븐 말로(Stephen Marlowe)의 단편소설이다. 이 책은 1956년 Ellery Queen의 Mystery Magazine에 처음 게재되었다.
이야기는 보기만큼 평범하지 않을 수도 있는 감자 한 덩이인 신비한 화물을 운반하는 트럭을 중심으로 전개된다.
"The Thing in the Truck" is a short story by Stephen Marlowe. The book was first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1956.
The story revolves around a truck carrying a mysterious cargo: a bunch of potatoes, which may not be as ordinary as they seem.
Summary
There's nothing peculiar about a load of potatoes going to market—but we knew something was wrong when the spuds suddenly came to life!
It started with a load of potatoes.
Joe Loftus and I were driving the big semi-trailer back from Montauk that night after delivering a load of fishing gear to one of the big resorts out there and wondering if we'd be able to pick up a truckload of anything on the way back to increase the take when Joe spotted this sign.
스티븐 말로 (Stephen Marlowe, 본명 Milton Lesser(밀턴 Lesser)는 SF , 미스터리 소설 , 고야 의 가상 자서전을 쓴 미국 작가다. 그는 1955년 소설 The Second Longest Night 를 위해 창작한 탐정 캐릭터 Chester Drum으로 가장 잘 알려졌다. Lesser는 또한 Adam Chase, Andrew Frazer, CH Thames, Jason Ridgway, Stephen Wilder 및 Ellery Queen 이라는 가명을 사용하여 글을 쓰기도 했다.
Stephen Marlowe (born Milton Lesser) is an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and Goya's fictional autobiography. He is best known for the detective character Chester Drum, which he created for his 1955 novel The Second Longest Night. .Lesser also wrote using the pseudonyms Adam Chase, Andrew Frazer, CH Thames, Jason Ridgway, Stephen Wilder, and Ellery Queen.