Saturday, June 11, 2011

Mysterious Days: 11 June


1923
Former show-business insider (and agent to such stars as Ramon Navarro) turned novelist George Baxt is born in Brooklyn. Baxt writes mordantly witty mystery novels in a variety of genres. In A Queer Kind of Death (1966) he introduces Pharoah Love, a gay black cop who operates within New York's homosexual community. Other books of his have real actors in roles, for example The Dorothy Parker Murder Case, the Marlene Dietrich Murder Case, and the William Powell and Myrna Loy Murder Case

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