Topsy and Evil - Pharoah Love, Bk 3 Author:George Baxt African-American private detective Pharoah Love in his third adventure. — Ostensibly, this mystery is about the murder of the mysterious tycoon Guru Raskalinkov, who is bludgeoned to death with a classic blunt instrument. Exactly what that blunt instrument was is another part of the mystery. — Certainly, the novel contains a typical Baxtian cast o... more »f bizarre characters. These include Topsy Alcott, doyenne of the Tara Club, and her daughters, meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth; Fauna and Flora Fleur, Madeline Carter (the through the aid of plastic surgery now resembles the young SHirley Temple), and the Moulin Twins, all from "Swing Low, Sweet Harriet," the wily Winnie Ruth Judo, who stages a jailbreak to help her friends; Archimedes Zoltan, who controls most of the world's wealth; Ocelot, the fabulous feline entertainer of the panther circuit; and Satan Staff, the hip young black detective whose job it is to find the murderer.
So what's the problem? Pharoah Love is missing. The real mystery is not just where is Pharoah Love, but how can "Topsy and Evil" be the tird novel in the Pharoah Love trilogy without him?« less
Baxt writes in a number of voices. If you like bizarre, you will love Topsy and Evil. If you are intrigued but not too sure, you might want to try Baxt out with the less far out "I, Said the Demon."