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The Deadly Percheron (Canongate Crime Classics) (Paperback)

by John Franklin Bardin (Author)
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  • Paperback: 216 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Classics; New edition edition (19 Sep 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841950130
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841950136
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 776,140 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Bardin was ahead of his time...there is a visionary lucidity about Bardin's nightmares that makes his surrealist logic both convincing and disturbing."


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Jacob Blunt has a strange connection with a number of dwarves. Upon entering the psychiatrist's office with a scarlet hibiscus in his curly blond hair he announces that he thinks he is losing his mind. Thus begins this classic crime thriller.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Certainly a crime classic, 4 Jun 2003
This was perhaps the strangest crime novel I've ever read...
In the first chapter, the book features a dwarf, a man with a flower in his hair, and a percheron tied to a lamp-post, and it continues on from there.
In my opinion, this is a great book - the plot is interesting enough to keep you reading, the author makes all the strange events seem real, and he really gets inside the head of the main characters. If you especially like books with a strong psychological aspect, this doesn't disappoint.
Yes, it is a bit different but that makes it seem like a breath of fresh air, something truly original among the run-of-the-mill crime novels today.
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4.0 out of 5 stars One in a million, 2 Aug 2007
This review is from: The Deadly Percheron (Paperback)
I read a lot of crime fiction, and this novel was recommended to me by a friend who said that anyone who was interested in crime fiction ought to read this. The opening chapter presents one of the most audaciously weird mysteries I've ever come across - a man walks into a psychiatrist's office wearing a purple flower in his hair, and claims that three 'little men' are paying him to do strange things (flower-wearing, whistling during concerts, and giving away money). The psychiatrist, Dr George Matthews, has to unravel the mystery. At first he assumes his client is bonkers (as one would), but then he meets one of the little men himself...
This is an amazing book, with a constantly-surprising and genuinely original plot, a macabre, tense, nightmarish atmosphere throughout and a satisfyingly unpredictable and gripping conclusion. My one criticism is that because there's so much plot, certain things that should have been given more time to unfold naturally in the book feel as if they've been 'rushed through'. I'd have preferred the author to take his time and for the book to be slightly longer. Still, it is one of the most striking and memorable crime stories I've ever read.
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