The Deadly Percheron (Red Badge Detective)

JOHN FRANKLIN BARDIN

Verlag: Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1946

Beschreibung

THE DEADLY PERCHERON by John Franklin Bardin black cloth with silver lettering and badge 1946. Assumed first edition published as a Red Badge Mystery (Detective) by Dodd, Mead, & Co. some cloth wear, upper spine edge small tear, inside tape marks 1st and last pages, otherwise clean tight and very good The opening chapter defies description. Imagine one of those 1930s screwball comedies with the crazy situations, but substitute malevolence for humor. Karl Edward Wagner 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 Percheron is a murder mystery, poignant love story, and an unsettling and hallucinatory voyage into memory, madness, and despair. The Deadly Percheron LEPRECHAUNS yet! And percherons! And a young man who wears a flower in his hair, gives away quarters and whistles in Carnage Hall. The young man is Jacob Blunt and he thinks he is going crazy. Can you blame him? Blunt consults Dr. George Matthews, a psychiatrist, who is then caught up in a bewildering series of events compared with which the phenomena just mentioned are but child's play. It is a story of murder and mayhem and hideous torture -- one which will hold your attention to the last, even though you cannot possibly believe that such things could happen here in little old New York. -- The New York Times June 2, 1946. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1615480821780

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Deadly Percheron (Red Badge Detective)

Verlag: Dodd, Mead, & Co.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1946

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: 1st Edition.