The Alfred Hitchcock Murder Case + Caesars Palace Postcard

Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Murder Case
Genre: Suspense Fiction
Author: George Baxt (1923-2003)
Illustrator: Nicky Zann (1943-)
Publisher: International Polygonics, Ltd, New York, New York
Series: A Crime Classic®
Year: 1987 (first IPL paperback edition of 1986 book)
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback, mass-market format
Provenance: Unknown
Author Bio Excerpt: “Mr. Baxt lives in New York, is a bachelor, and is devoted to his VCR.”
Opening Sentence: “The Furies were gaining on him.”
Random Passage: “Alma gathered up the tea-things on the tray and led the way to the kitchen. ‘There’s not terribly too much to see. It’s quite an ordinary little flat. We don’t spend as much time here as we used to. We love the cottage so.’ Hitchcock followed them into the kitchen, reminding himself to reprove Alma for serving stale biscuits.”
Goodreads Review: “Alfred Hitchcock is directing his first movie as a young man in Munich when one of his crew is murdered. A second murder follows, but the police are baffled. Hitch and his beloved wife Alma are sure there’s a story in there somewhere, but can’t figure out the angle they could use. Cut to England, eleven years later, when some of the members of the cast reappear as refugees from an increasingly dangerous Germany. A free-lance writer named Nancy Adair wants to interview Hitch in the worst way. The murders start again, and events seem to be following a screenplay Hitch has been sent. The plot gets really confusing (so confusing that this lost a star) before a fairly satisfying ending.” — Susan, June 25, 2012.
Notes: George Baxt is best known for introducing Pharaoh Love, one of the first openly gay detective characters, in his novel A Queer Kind of Death (1966). Later on, he wrote a series of mysteries involving real-life entertainers from the 1930s and '40s, of which The Alfred Hitchcock Murder Case is the second—following The Dorothy Parker Murder Case (1984). Although commonplace today, the idea of having a fictional mystery involving actual celebrities still had a lot of novelty in the 1980s, and the flamboyant Baxt was the guy to make it lively and interesting.
As a bonus, I’m adding a circa-1968 scallop-edged postcard (recently sent to me by a friend) with a photograph of the glamorous main showroom at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. From the description: “One of the spectacular shows at this multi-million dollar 700 room hotel is something to be long remembered. The greatest names in show business appear nightly against a backdrop of splendor and color never to be equated.”