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One internet reviewer tells us the book is a “deadly serious excursion into identity formation and the psychology of guilt. Jun 01, M. Fabulous s Utterly, utterly brilliant. People can’t remember who the main character is. Bardin is Woolrich on steroids. Bardin never suggests otherwise. Oct 15, Morrtal Salvidge rated it it was amazing. Seldom will you find a mystery so intriguing and satisfying.

Bardin overcomplicates the plot, which will stretch the believability of many readers, but his writing style is fresh, muscular, and gritty. I enjoyed this book, but I think it shows its age. The lad believes he is going crazy, which is a prrcheron assumption.

He has the proper training, after all, and mortzl he is playing the game. Little men keep paying him money to do ridiculous things.

John Franklin Bardin wrote several books, but there was a productive period starting in with The Deadly Percheron reaching publication, followed by The Last of Philip Banter and Devil Take the Blue-Tailed Fly k where he had more like a tiger by the tail. George Matthews is an established psychiatrist in New York City.

El percheron mortal / The Deadly Percheron

Sure Blunt is the brunt of a hoax, Dr. View all 18 comments. He came into my office wearing a scarlet hibiscus in his curly blond hair. John Franklin Bardin wrote ten mystery novels, but it is for first three—written in a remarkable burst of creativity in the years from to —that he will be best remembered. He meets several circus freaks. From this opening the story gets wilder and wilder, until it culminates in a truly bizarre confrontation in a Coney island funhouse at night.

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The edition depicted here not my own features a Salvador Dali painting on the covers that is clearly intended to suggest a certain surreal quality to it all. There are twists galore and although the prose style pedcheron is a little clunky inadvertently increasing the oddity of some scenes as a whole the novel is magnificent.

Sometimes it’s wearing flowers in his hair, sometimes it’s gi Dr. Jan 31, A. But in between–in spite of the weird addition of percheron horses left at murder scenes, amnesia, and torture–that’s what keeps you reading, wanting to know how it all fits together. Wl very strange and brilliant crime novel originally published in Lists with This Book.

Still, he is a changed man when he comes out.

The Deadly Percheron by John Franklin Bardin

The narrator has amnesia, and that’s fine as a literary device—but having him suddenly remember the truth of things four times over the course of percehron book, and using that as the primary driver of the mystery, was a little sloppy. Oct 15, Dustin Reade rated it it was amazing.

Darker, more complex, even more chilling. Open Preview See a Problem? Paperbackpages.

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He worked many odd jobs—everything from bench worker at a valve foundry to bouncer at a roller rink—but perhaps benefited most from being a clerk at a bookstore, where he read and educated himself.

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Matthews accompanies him to a bar perchwron night to meet one of the little men.

Refresh and try again. It’s hard to believe this was written in the ’40s – it seemed to I came to this in an unusual way.

Of course, any reasonable person will just percheronn he is a small person running some kind of scam, or he could be a wealthy, certifiably insane munchkin. This is copy 31 of signed numbered copies.

There are no white rabbits in the book but it turned out to be quite perchegon find all the same. The only way he’s able to get out of the mental ward is by pretending to be the derelict John Brown and concocting a story the hospital staff will believe. No trivia or quizzes yet. I suppose the plot is convoluted and the repeated bouts of amnesia may seem to be a little unbelievable, but I was so caught up in the action rl I willingly suspended disbelief.

The mystery is intriguing and the hero’s journey to motral truth is certainly an unusual and painful one. After Matthews meets the “leprechaun”the second time, he begins to unravel the mystery of what happened to him in the intervening months between his blow to the head and waking up in the mental hospital.

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