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The Deadly Percheron

by John Franklin Bardin · 1946

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"The opening chapter defies description. Imagine one of those 1930s screwball comedies with the crazy situations, but substitute malevolence for humor."—Karl Edward Wagner

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"Doctor, I'm losing my mind." 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. The Deadly Percheronis a murder mystery, poignant love story, and an unsettling and hallucinatory voyage into memory, madness, and despair.

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Setting
1940s1940sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 269 pages

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