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The Greta Garbo Murder Case | 
| Author: George Baxt
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 229081
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 197
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 031206988X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312069889
ASIN: 031206988X
Publication Date: March 1992
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Product Description
Accepting the role of Joan of Arc, Hollywood star Greta Garbo finds herself in the middle of a picture involving German expatriates and a cast of spies. By the author of The Tallulah Bankhead Murder Case.
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 Very Poor! September 20, 2003
S. Schwartz (alberta canada)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Up to now I've been enjoying Baxt's Hollywood mysteries, but this particular one was written extremely poorly. It was disjointed and made no sense. And Garbo seemed like a cardboard cutout - there was no life to her at all. The premise was a good one - espionage in Hollywood after the bombing of Pearl Harbour, but it went absolutely nowhere. It was so unmemorable that I don't even remember the names of the lead characters who were at the heart of the conspiracy. I do hope that the others remaining in the series get back to the old format that the first four books had.
ridiculous rubbish February 26, 2000
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have never understood why some authors choose to write about historical figures and time periods without doing extensive research beforehand. Although this is supposed to be a historical mystery novel it reads more like a confusing, ridiculous piece of fantasy. Why must author George Baxt include Peter Lorre and Erich von Stroheim as characters in his novel if he's not in the least interested in finding out what these men were really like? Baxt's description of Mr. Lorre and Mr. Von Stroheim is degrading and offensive. It's too bad the author doesn't have more respect for these charming and extremely talented men, who incidentally were both Austrian Jews, not Germans. As for the whole Nazi spy plot -- well, I've read plenty of better-written, more realistic, WWII-era mystery novels. Pass on this one.
 another oddie but goodie June 11, 1999
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is another George Baxt mystery that, perhaps, is a bit too full of spies. It was the very first I read, and I may have a soft spot for it, but I would recommend it to almost anyone. This is a very good book for someone who is willing to pay close attention to all the characters and plot details, not for a person that just sees the confusing mess (and it gets a bit messy at times, I'll confess). Still, it is quite a ride, and it makes one wish they'd actually met these people. Still more hurrays for Baxt- and, of course, Greta Garbo.
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