About

John Franklin Bardin (1916-1981) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1946, Bardin entered a period of intense creativity during which he wrote three crime novels that were relatively unsuccessful at first, one of them not even being published in America until the late 1960s, but which have since become well-regarded cult novels. Is best-regarded works, The Deadly Percheron, The Last of Philip Banter and Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly experienced renewed interest in the 1970s when they were discovered by British readers. He resided New York City’s East Village until his death on July 9, 1981.

John Franklin Bardin's bold and unconventional crime thriller is at once a murder mystery, poignant love story and, most important, an unsettling and hallucinatory dark voyage into memory, madness, torture, and despair More happens in the first fifty pages of this book than you might think possible Press is proud to present this classic novel, a combination of the detective story and the tale of psychological horror, in a new edition, with a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem, and the first chapters of a previously unpublished final novel which had never before been seen.

The cover is by Surrealist Salvador Dalí, and the back cover has a more complete picture of this amazing painting.

Edition Details

• Limited to 300 copies, each signed by Jonathan Lethem.
• Introduction by Jonathan Lethem.
• Includes the first two chapters of a previously-unpublished novel.
• Handsome photograph of John Franklin Bardin.
• Salvador Dalí dustjacket, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.

External Links

• The Deadly Percheron. Centipede Press page for The Deadly Percheron
• John Franklin Bardin (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for John Franklin Bardin