George Baxt: Burning Sappho (UK 1972)

From the Publisher:
As a thriller novelist's comment on the fair and not so gentle sex in full cry, Burning Sappho detonates a megaton of Amazon emotions and intrigues.

That the characters here introduced as champions of Y Women's Lib carried to its wildest and most fanciful extremes are going to exceed the bounds of normal conduct is self-evident from the start. Murder and sudden death seem inevitable, and indeed they prove to be.

But that is not all, not by a long chalk. Under the bewitching powers of Sappho (best-selling authoress of Female Slave) the group known as Sappho's Sisters stages a march and demo, culminating in a bonfire of brassieres and an amazing mass denudation.

Behind these fabulous junketings a very great crime has been hidden and forgotten. It is gradually revealed.

The author of A Queer Kind of Death and The Affair at Royalties again demonstrates an eccentric talent that adds another dimension to the excitements of a strongly plotted, vividly funny crime novel.

George Baxt: Burning Sappho. London: Macmillan, 1972, ISBN: 0333137140, 191 p., £?.??.