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George Baxt (June 11, 1923 – June 28, 2003) was an American screenwriter and author of crime fiction, best remembered for creating the gay black detective, Pharaoh Love. Four of his novels were finalists for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery.
The love affair with Pharoah Love continued. Baxt followed Queer up with two Love sequels: Swing Low, Sweet Harriet; and Topsy and Evil. Later, I re-encountered Baxt's work when I dove into The Dorothy Parker Murder Case, the debut title in a series of mysteries he concocted in the 80s, using celebrity sleuths.
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Jan 1, 1971 · Writer Laura Denning awakens in a London nursing home, having trouble remembering things, and is told that she was found in the blood-drenched kitchen of her country home, Royalties, clutching a blood knife...but there is no corpse.
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George was an innovator with this book and the ones to follow–he introduced the world to a black gay detective–the first openly gay detective in fiction, Pharaoh Love. George went on to write a few entries in another series.
Sep 1, 1995 · A messy, inane plot and lame attempts at humor sink the latest in Baxt's series starring gay, black NYPD detective Pharaoh Love. A Chinatown gang boss feuds with his wife, his underlings and his silent partner, a Greek shipping heiress, while trying to fend off the feds and the cops.
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Its detective hero Pharoah Love was black, spoke hipster jive and drove a Jaguar, but, most startling of all, he was openly gay. " The New York Times reviewed it three times," Baxt recalled,...
Jul 15, 1995 · In this book, Baxt presents detective Pharoah Love of the NYPD, black and gay. We are off for a roller coaster ride in this one as Love mixes it up with the Mafia, , luxurious brothels, and a very straight partner.
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