The Deadly Percheron

This phantasmagoric crime novel is set in wartime New York City, a darkened, paranoid, stifling place in which some very strange people lurk... A successful and respectable psychiatrist, Dr George Matthews takes on a panicked, wealthy young man suffering from disturbing hallucinations which, most unfortunately, may not be hallucinations at all. With its unique atmosphere of threat, secrets and madness, The Deadly Percheron is a great New York noir novel. The extraordinary climax in an abandoned Coney Island Fun House has to be read to be believed.