John Franklin Bardin Bücher
30. November 1916 – 9. Juli 1981
John Franklin Bardin war ein amerikanischer Autor, dessen Werke, insbesondere seine Kriminalromane, Kultstatus erlangt haben. Seine Schriften zeichnen sich durch eine düstere Atmosphäre und psychologische Tiefe aus. Bardin erforschte oft die komplexen Motivationen seiner Charaktere und ihre Begegnungen mit den dunkleren Seiten der menschlichen Natur. Seine späteren Werke wurden von britischen Lesern entdeckt, was in den 1970er Jahren zu neuem Interesse führte.
Who stole George Matthews' life? 'Doctor, I think I'm losing my mind...'. When a wealthy young man turns up at respected psychiatrist Dr George Matthews' office uttering these words, it changes his safe existence forever. Suddenly Matthews finds himself dragged into a strange, surreal world where nothing is certain. And when an actress is found murdered, a horse tied up outside her apartment, Matthews loses his memory - and must find it in a nightmarish urban jungle of mistaken identities, secrets and insanity.
Between 1946 and 1948 John Franklin Bardin produced three quite extraordinary novels, all distinguished by a hallucinatory intensity of feeling and an absorption in morbid psychology remarkable for the period. The Deadly Percheron, The Last of Philip Banter and Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly are unlike anything else in modern crime literature.For the first time all three have been gathered together in a single volume, and at long last reintroduce the work of a great and original writer.
Le diable prend la mouche
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- 8 Lesestunden
