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Copyright © 1972 by Éditions Gallimard, Paris

Translation copyright © 2014 by Donald Nicholson-Smith

Introduction copyright © 2014 by James Sallis

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First published in French as Ô Dingos, Ô Châteaux by Éditions Gallimard.

Cet ouvrage a bénéficié du soutien des Programmes d’aide à la publication de l’Institut français.

This work, published as part of a program of aid for publication, received support from the Institut Français.

Cover image: Miwa Yanagi, The White Casket (detail), 1994; courtesy of the artist and Yoshiko Isshiki Office
Cover design: Katy Homans

The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:

Manchette, Jean-Patrick, 1942–1995, author.

[O dingos, ô châteaux. English]

The mad and the bad / Jean-Patrick Manchette ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith.

pages cm. — (New York Review Books Classics)

Translated from the French.

ISBN 978-1-59017-720-4 (paperback)

I. Nicholson-Smith, Donald, translator. II. Title.

PQ2673.A452O313 2014

843'.914—dc23

2013050861

ISBN 978-1-59017-740-2
v1.0

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