So begins John Franklin Bardin’s unconventional crime thriller in which a psychiatrist's attempts to help his patient lead to a dead-end world of amnesia and social outcasts. Buy The Deadly Percheron by Bardin, John Franklin, Lethem, Jonathan (ISBN: 9781933618104) from Amazon's Book Store. The Deadly Percheron: Amazon.co.uk: Bardin, John Franklin, Lethem, Jonathan: 9781933618104: Books New York City was apparently a very nutty place during WWII for the civilian population left behind and this extremely well written book goes straight to the source of the insanity: Coney Island. The Deadly Percheron. It is well written and the characters and plot are composed with care. paperback. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. The deadly percheron by John Franklin Bardin, December 2006, Millipede Press edition, Paperback in English For its influence on the movie "Mona Lisa. In 1946, Bardin entered a period of intense creativity during which he wrote three crime novels that were relatively unsuccessful at first, one of them not even being published in America until the late 1960s, but which have since become well-regarded cult novels. The Deadly Percheron: Bardin, John Franklin: Amazon.sg: Books. Part of me is sad that someone has never adapted it for the screen but I suspect unless you got a mid sixties Samuel Fuller or a David Lynch to do it the book wouldn't be remotely done justice to. It lurches around tonally from noir to psychological novel to satire to just plain weirdness - and all this is part of why it's such a masterpiece. And don’t forget the work horses from which the book gets its title. I'd say that this one of the best detectives I've read. As much as I think the "X meets Y" type of review is as lazy as the "like Z on acid" type, this read like Phil K. Dick met Raymond Chandler, or perhaps Dashiell Hammett, all of them on acid. Be the first to ask a question about The Deadly Percheron. Bardin is like what would happen if Keeler just took one of his maddest ideas and followed it with focus and thought, A masterpiece and all the more so because, as Symons says in the introduction to the omnibus I read this in, it's not perfect. El percheron mortal / The Deadly Percheron by John Franklin Bardin, , available at Book Depository with free delivery. New York City was apparently a very nutty place during WWII for the civilian population left behind and this extremely well written book goes straight to the source of the insanity: Coney Island. The Deadly Percheron (Canongate Crime Classics S.) by Bardin, John Franklin at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 1841950130 - ISBN 13: 9781841950136 - Canongate Classics - 2000 - Softcover For most of the novel I was unsure as to whether George Matthews (or John Brown) was an entirely reliable narrator, but that was fully resolved in the end. * The Brits' rediscovery of this book in the 1970s was based on its psychological elements, and that is how it comes to us now, as an early psychological crime novel. Buy The Deadly Percheron (Canongate Crime Classics S.) New by Bardin, John Franklin (ISBN: 9781841950136) from Amazon's Book Store. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published The New York Psychiatrist at the heart of this story finds that fact out the hard way in this bizarre whodunit involving small men, large horses and lots of hard luck dames. 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