• • Here is the flap copy written by George Baxt. The year is 1936, and Mae West has all of Hollywood wrapped around her little finger: a place many a man would kill to be. The legendary screen siren has, however, one critic — — one with deadly fangs in place of a poison pen — — who is knocking off Mae West impersonators along his way to the real thing. But if there's one thing Mae West knows, it's that no no-account vampire is going to upstage Tinseltown's most celebrated vamp. Brought back larger than life as only George Baxt can do it, Mae herself takes charge of the investigation in an adventure brimming with her doubles and her double entendres. This time she's hoping he won't have a gun in his pocket, and that he won't be glad to see her. Armed with glamour, gossip, and curves of every kind, Mae leaps headlong into a web of blackmail and corruption without so much as a trace of fear. Says Mae West: "You don't know danger until you've faced the New York critics on an opening night." 
• • And when a Hallowe'en party at one of Hollywood's spookiest, seamiest clubs brings hunter and hunted together, it's no longer clear who is after whom. What is clear, however, is that once Mae West gets in on the act, no sucker is safe.• • George Baxt penned over a dozen titles in his Cinema Murder Case series, including The Clark Gable and Carole Lombard Murder Case, and The William Powell and Myra Loy Murder Case.
• • He also wrote screenplays for television.
• • During surgery in a New York hospital, the octagenarian died in 2003.
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• • Illustration: Mae West bookcover • • author George Baxt • • 1993 • •
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