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The following morning, Dr. It was kind of like walking through green smog, but it smelled nice, like a joke, or carnival food. The only job he can get is working in a restaurant on Coney Island. But what made him really fascinatingly ugly was the wide, long, angry red scar that traversed his face diagonally from one ear across the nose and down to the root of the moral at the base of his other cheek.

One of my favourite films is ‘Mona Lisa’, which I was looking up on IMDB to see if anyone had any words of wisdom about the significance of the white rabbit. But one day he encounters the leprechaun he’d met with Jacob Blunt Deciding perccheron find out what the hell is going on, Matthews accepts Blunt into his care. Matthews learns that a famous Broadway actress has been murdered and there is a Percheron tethered in front of her townhouse.

He might be a Leprechaun, or he might be a midget, dwarf, small person, Lilliputian, hafling. Un autore sottovalutato per decenni, che aveva detto: No trivia or quizzes yet. Incubi della mente o omicidi reali?

El percheron mortal / The Deadly Percheron

Little men keep paying him money to do ridiculous things. But in between-in spite of the weird addition of percheron horses left at murder scenes, amnesia, and torture-that’s what keeps you reading, wanting to know how it all fits together.

He goes there and a woman is killed. Unputdownable My first Bardin, and it’s made me a die-hard fan. Mar 16, Bill Hsu rated it it was ok.

The money he’s paid is good, but the little men keep wanting him to do stranger and stranger things.

Dick met Raymond Chandler, or perhaps Dashiell Hammett, all of them on acid. The redhead glanced up at us as we came into the room, her eyes intense green blurs in her beautiful, blank face. This was apparently Bardin’s first novel mogtal it has some typical first book issues a dragging mid-section, awkward transitions, occasional info-dumping, and difficulty tying up loose ends but it also establishes what would appear to percheeon the writer’s primary and very personal interest in identity and personality and the ways we negotiate and integrate our multiple social selves in the world when either our outside surroundings or our inner resources break down.

Published December 1st by Millipede Press first published Sometimes it’s wearing flowers in his hair, sometimes mortsl gi Dr.

The Deadly Percheron

Takes place in early s. The edition depicted here not my own features a Salvador Dali painting on the covers that is clearly intended to suggest a certain surreal quality to it all.

Graduating from Cincinnati’s elite public high school Walnut Hills, he studied engineering briefly at the University of Cincinnati, but an unfortunate series of calamities—beginning in his teens with his father’s fatal heart attack and ending with his mother’s institutionalization for paranoid schizophrenia—wiped out both his family and his fortune and deprived him of a pfrcheron education.

But where else are you going to find semi-amnesic victims of chemical torture leading double lives, high-society trust fund man-children with hibiscuses in their hair and Broadway-babes on their arms, all topped off with a leprechaun criminal syndicate possibly pulling the strings? If you wish to see more of my most recent book and movie reviews, visit http: Then things get much weirder: But the conclusion does not fulfill the drama of the beginning.

Jul 05, Frank rated it liked it.

Definitely odd, with bizarre circumstances and characters, written in a stylized tone familiar to anyone who has seen old films — the problem is with all of the unnecessary details meant to keep the reader from discovering who the murderer is.

Percehron Matthews comes to see Blunt at the police station, they release him into Matthews’ care. Un cattivo libro rinforza l’atteggiamento intransigente del lettore verso la sperimentazione di un nuovo mondo. A fast read, typical noir, feels a bit dated and at times contrived, but not bad, like watching an old movie.

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I discovered that, not only is one of the characters reading ‘The Deadly Percheron’ in the film, but that the film is apparently full of references to it.

But it’s a game the reader must play with himself, for Bardin does nothing to encourage it. The only way he’s able to get out of the mental ward is e pretending to be the derelict John Brown and concocting a story the hospital staff will believe.