Baxt, George

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BAXT, George

BAXT, George. American, b. 1923. Genres: Mystery/Crime/Suspense, Plays/Screenplays. Publications: NOVELS: A Queer Kind of Death, 1966; Swing Low, Sweet Harriet, 1967; A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures; or, Did Someone Murder Our Wandering Boy?, 1967; Topsy and Evil, 1968; "I!" Said the Demon, 1969; The Affair at Royalties, 1971; Burning Sappho, 1972; Process of Elimination; 1984; The Dorothy Parker Murder Case, 1984; The Alfred Hitchcock Murder Case: An Unauthorized Novel, 1986; The Tallulah Bankhead Murder Case, 1987; Who's Next?, 1988; The Talking Pictures Murder Cases, 1990; The Greta Garbo Murder Case, 1991; The Noel Coward Murder Case, 1992; The Marlene Dietrich Murder Case, 1993; The Mae West Murder Case, 1993; A Queer Kind of Love, 1994; The Humphrey Bogart Murder Case, 1995; A Queer Kind of Umbrella, 1995; tHE cLARK gABLE AND cAROLE lOMBARD mURDER cASE, 1997. SCREENPLAYS: Circus of Horrors, 1960; The City of the Dead (Horror Hotel), 1960; The Shadow of the Cat, 1961; Payroll, 1961; Night of the Eagle (Burn Witch Burn), 1962; Strangler's Web, 1965; Thunder over Dixie, 1965. Died 2003.