The Deadly Percheron
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
When a man walks into a psychiatrist's office claiming that leprechauns are paying him to wear flowers in his hair, Dr. George Matthews suspects a simple delusion — but what begins as a routine consultation rapidly spirals into one of crime fiction's most disorienting and compulsively readable mysteries. The Deadly Percheron, published in 1946, is the debut novel of John Franklin Bardin, a masterwork of psychological suspense that blurs the boundary between sanity and madness, identity and illusion, as Matthews is drawn into a web of manipulation, murder, and mistaken identity that strips him of everything he thought he knew — including himself. Bardin writes with an unsettling precision that sets him apart from his contemporaries, wielding the conventions of the hard-boiled detective novel and reshaping them into something far more sinister and surreal. His work anticipates the psychological noir that would later captivate writers and readers alike, and The Deadly Percheron stands as its purest, most disturbing expression — a novel that asks not merely *whodunit*, but whether the mind itself can ever truly be trusted as a witness.
Author: John Franklin Bardin
Format: Hardback
Published: 1947, Victor Gollancz Ltd
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
When a man walks into a psychiatrist's office claiming that leprechauns are paying him to wear flowers in his hair, Dr. George Matthews suspects a simple delusion — but what begins as a routine consultation rapidly spirals into one of crime fiction's most disorienting and compulsively readable mysteries. The Deadly Percheron, published in 1946, is the debut novel of John Franklin Bardin, a masterwork of psychological suspense that blurs the boundary between sanity and madness, identity and illusion, as Matthews is drawn into a web of manipulation, murder, and mistaken identity that strips him of everything he thought he knew — including himself. Bardin writes with an unsettling precision that sets him apart from his contemporaries, wielding the conventions of the hard-boiled detective novel and reshaping them into something far more sinister and surreal. His work anticipates the psychological noir that would later captivate writers and readers alike, and The Deadly Percheron stands as its purest, most disturbing expression — a novel that asks not merely *whodunit*, but whether the mind itself can ever truly be trusted as a witness.