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No Room at the Morgue

By Jean-Patrick Manchette
Afterword by Howard A. Rodman
Translated by Alyson Waters

By Jean-Patrick Manchette
Afterword by Howard A. Rodman
Translated by Alyson Waters

By Jean-Patrick Manchette
Afterword by Howard A. Rodman
Translated by Alyson Waters

By Jean-Patrick Manchette
Afterword by Howard A. Rodman
Translated by Alyson Waters

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    About No Room at the Morgue

    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.

    About No Room at the Morgue

    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.

    Product Details

    Category: Crime Mysteries | Noir Mysteries

    Paperback | $15.95
    Published by NYRB Classics
    Aug 11, 2020 | 208 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9781681374185

    Category: Crime Mysteries | Noir Mysteries

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by NYRB Classics
    Aug 11, 2020 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9781681374192

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    “[A] clever crime novel . . . Manchette plays this story for ironic humor . . . Manchette remains essential reading.” —Publishers Weekly

    “If Marx, Freud, and Jim Thompson collaborated on a noir, this might be the result.” —Kirkus Reviews

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