The Dead All Have the Same Skin by Boris Vian

The Dead All Have the Same Skin

Vernon Sullivan #2

Boris Vian with Marc Lapprand (Contributor), Paul Knobloch (Translator)

137 pages first pub 1947 (view editions)

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Vian’s second noir novel under the Vernon Sullivan pseudonym is a brutal tale of racism in postwar New York City, as protagonist Daniel Parker is blackmailed by a long lost brother. Also included is the short story “Dogs, Desire and Death,” and Vi...

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