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John Franklin Bardin

    30 novembre 1916 – 9 luglio 1981

    John Franklin Bardin è stato un autore americano le cui opere, in particolare i suoi romanzi polizieschi, hanno raggiunto uno status di culto. La sua scrittura è caratterizzata da un'atmosfera oscura e una profondità psicologica. Bardin esplorava spesso le complesse motivazioni dei suoi personaggi e i loro incontri con gli aspetti più oscuri della natura umana. Le sue opere successive furono scoperte dai lettori britannici, portando a un rinnovato interesse negli anni '70.

    Le diable prend la mouche
    Geständnis auf Raten
    Prisma Detective - 480: De vlindermoorden
    The John Franklin Bardin Omnibus
    The Deadly Percheron
    Requiem per Philip Banter
    • 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.

      The Deadly Percheron
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    • 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.

      The John Franklin Bardin Omnibus
    • De verschijning van Sally Shaw op de cover van Pulse had twee gevolgen. Het maakte haar tot een nationale beroemdheid... en resulteerde in talloze anonieme brieven en telefoontjes die haar zo angstig maakten dat ze een zenuwinstorting kreeg. In haar verwarde toestand wist ze nauwelijks wat er met haar gebeurde, en haar beschrijving van haar eigen moord kon net zo goed een hallucinatie zijn. Er was echter een lijk in het appartement van Sally — dat van de liftbediende — en ook een bloedspoor dat naar de bovenverdieping leidde... en naar een ander lijk.

      Prisma Detective - 480: De vlindermoorden
      4,0