No Room at the Morgue
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No Room at the Morgue by Jean-Patrick Manchette
Inspired by the works of Dashiell Hammett, No Room at the Morgue is Jean-Patrick Manchette's unparalleled take on the private eye novel -- fierce, politically inflected, and finely rendered by the haunting, pitch-black prose for which the author is famed.No Room at the Morgue came out after Jean-Patrick Manchette had transformed French crime fiction with such brilliantly plotted, politically charged, unrelentingly violent tales as Nada and The Mad and the Bad. Here, inspired by his love of Dashiell Hammett, Manchette introduces Eugene Tarpon, private eye, a sometime cop who has set up shop after being kicked off the force for accidentally killing a political demonstrator. Months have passed, and Tarpon desultorily tries to keep in shape while drinking all the time. No one has shown up at the door of his office in the midst of the market district of Les Halles. Then the bell rings and a beautiful woman bursts in, her hands dripping blood. It's Memphis Charles, her roommate's throat has been cut, and Memphis can't go to the police because they'll only suspect her. Can Tarpon help?
Well, somehow he can't help trying. Soon bodies mount, and the craziness only grows.
Jean-Patrick Manchette (December 19, 1942, Marseille – June 3, 1995, Paris) was a French crime author who is credited with revitalizing the genre. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, he wrote 10 short novels and is largely regarded as the foremost French crime fiction novelist of the time. His stories are harsh existentialist investigations of the human condition and society in France. Manchette was a jazz saxophonist and screenwriter who was also a left-wing activist influenced by the Situationist International's writings as well as Dashiell Hammett's. Four of his novels have been translated into English. Three To Kill and The Prone Gunman, which is also available in a movie-tie version titled The Gunman, were both published by City Lights Books.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781681374185 |
| ISBN 10 | 1681374188 |
| Title | No Room at the Morgue |
| Author | Jean-Patrick Manchette |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Year published | 2020-08-11 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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