Savage Breast
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First UK ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
A razor-sharp wit and a deceptively sharp mind define Biff Morrison, Manning Long's redoubtable amateur sleuth, as she finds herself once again entangled in a web of murder, misdirection, and mayhem in Savage Breast. Set against the backdrop of mid-twentieth-century American social life, the novel chronicles Biff's collision with a cast of eccentric suspects and a corpse that nobody seems particularly sorry to see gone — a premise that Long renders with breezy, screwball energy and a keen eye for comic timing. Long's writing style sits confidently in the tradition of the had-I-but-known school of American crime fiction, blending genuine suspense with laugh-out-loud humour in a manner that recalls the best of Phoebe Atwood Taylor. Beneath the effervescent surface, Savage Breast presents a shrewd commentary on gender dynamics and social pretension, with Biff Morrison standing as a quietly subversive heroine who refuses to be underestimated — leaving the reader to wonder, right up to the final page, who truly has the last laugh.
Author: Manning Long
Format: Hardback
Published: 1951, Hammond, Hammond & Co. Ltd.
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: First UK ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
A razor-sharp wit and a deceptively sharp mind define Biff Morrison, Manning Long's redoubtable amateur sleuth, as she finds herself once again entangled in a web of murder, misdirection, and mayhem in Savage Breast. Set against the backdrop of mid-twentieth-century American social life, the novel chronicles Biff's collision with a cast of eccentric suspects and a corpse that nobody seems particularly sorry to see gone — a premise that Long renders with breezy, screwball energy and a keen eye for comic timing. Long's writing style sits confidently in the tradition of the had-I-but-known school of American crime fiction, blending genuine suspense with laugh-out-loud humour in a manner that recalls the best of Phoebe Atwood Taylor. Beneath the effervescent surface, Savage Breast presents a shrewd commentary on gender dynamics and social pretension, with Biff Morrison standing as a quietly subversive heroine who refuses to be underestimated — leaving the reader to wonder, right up to the final page, who truly has the last laugh.