George Baxt: Satan is a Woman (USA 1987)

From the Publisher:
THE RETURN OF MAX VAN LARSEN AND SYLVIA PLOTKIN
You remember Max and Sylvia. He's a tough New York cop, she's a former New York schoolteacher, now a best-selling novelist. Together they co-starred in A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures and "I!" Said the Demon, neither of which you should miss.

Even if you haven't met them, SATAN IS A WOMAN is good place to start for it brings Max and Sylvia back for the first time in 18 years.

While visiting London, Max goes to a Witches' Sabbath where he loses his mind and has to be returned to the States in a straight jacket. Sylvia tries to nurse him back to health with chicken soup, which he hates and which only make him crazier. Clearly, desperate measures are in order. As a last resort -- and as the novel opens -- Sylvia flies to London to investigate.

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine recently called author George Baxt "one of our genre's most ingenious wits in residence." SATAN IS A WOMAN will only reinforce his reputation for without a doubt, it is the funniest book in the Van Larsen/Plotkin series. And the countless readers of The Dorothy Parker Murder Case, The Alfred Hitchcoc! Murder Case, A Queer Kind of Death, and Swing Low, Sweet Harriet will cheer for Baxt's wildest, wittiest, wackiest weirdest work yet. So read it and laugh. It couldn't hurt.

George Baxt: Satan is a Woman. A Max Van Larsen / Sylvia Plotkin Mystery. International Polygonics, ISBN: 093033065X (October, 1987), 231 p., $5.95.