<DIV><BR>“The opening chapter defies description. Imagine one of those 1930s screwball comedies with the crazy situations, but substitute malevolence for humor.”—Karl Edward Wagner<br> <br>“Doctor, I’m losing my mind.” So begins John Franklin Bardin’s unconventional crime thriller in which a psychiatrist attempts to help his patient lead to a dead-end world of amnesia and social outcasts. <I>The Deadly Percheron</I> is a murder mystery, poignant love story, and an unsettling and hallucinatory voyage into memory, madness, and despair.</DIV>