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Van Larsen and Plotkin #2
I! Said the Demon
Schoolteacher-best selling author Sylvia Plotkin and detective Max Van Larsen, still rather unsuccessfully panting after one another with middle aged fervor are back. Fantastic, ridiculous, magnificent fun for all.
200 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1987
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George Baxt
54 books19 followersGeorge Baxt, the US playwright, scriptwriter and novelist, in New York City, USA.
He began his career as a radio announcer, an actors' agent, and television scriptwriter. He claimed that as an actors' agent he threw James Dean out of his office because he needed a bath. George Baxt's career developed into scriptwriting cult horror films. He made a contribution to The Abominable Dr Phibes, although it was uncredited. His first novel A Queer Kind of Death, (1966), introduced the detective Pharoah Love who was the first in the genre to be both black and openly gay. The novel was very well received and marked the start of a new career in writing. Two further Pharoah Love novels soon appeared and were widely regarded as superior to the first. Nearly three decades passed before the final outings of Pharoah Love in two novels.
Meanwhile George Baxt introduced the detective duo Sylvia Plotkin and Max van Larsen, but these were soon abandoned and several non-series novels were produced. Starting with The Dorothy Parker Murder Case, George Baxt then began to use his knowledge of Hollywood life by using celebrities as characters in a series of detective novels.
He died following complications after heart surgery.
Interesting obituary here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obi...
He began his career as a radio announcer, an actors' agent, and television scriptwriter. He claimed that as an actors' agent he threw James Dean out of his office because he needed a bath. George Baxt's career developed into scriptwriting cult horror films. He made a contribution to The Abominable Dr Phibes, although it was uncredited. His first novel A Queer Kind of Death, (1966), introduced the detective Pharoah Love who was the first in the genre to be both black and openly gay. The novel was very well received and marked the start of a new career in writing. Two further Pharoah Love novels soon appeared and were widely regarded as superior to the first. Nearly three decades passed before the final outings of Pharoah Love in two novels.
Meanwhile George Baxt introduced the detective duo Sylvia Plotkin and Max van Larsen, but these were soon abandoned and several non-series novels were produced. Starting with The Dorothy Parker Murder Case, George Baxt then began to use his knowledge of Hollywood life by using celebrities as characters in a series of detective novels.
He died following complications after heart surgery.
Interesting obituary here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obi...
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May 13, 2012
A California parole officer comes to New York searching for a man, recently released from prison, who may be involved in Judge Kramer's 1932 disappearance. Coincidentally, missing persons expert Max Van Larsen has been asked to write an article about Kramer. Meanwhile, Van Larsen's girlfriend, teacher and author Sylvia Plotkin, assembles an odd collection of friends, including some women who may have known Kramer when they were showgirls. There's also a gypsy and her hunchbacked son, and Madame Vilna, star of the Yiddish theater--even an unforeseen hurricane that appears at a dramatically interesting point. Baxt can be terrific, and is here.
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