No Room at the Morgue (New York Review Books Classics)

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UPC:
9781681374185
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
8/11/2020
Release Date:
8/11/2020
Author:
Manchette, Jean-Patrick
Language:
English: Published; English: Original Language; English
Pages:
208
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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. Its Memphis Charles, her roommates throat has been cut, and Memphis cant go to the police because theyll only suspect her. Can Tarpon help? Well, somehow he cant help trying. Soon bodies mount, and the craziness only grows.