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'Manchette was Le Homme...rediscover him this very instant' - James EllroyMeet Eugène Tarpon: ex-cop, ex-idealist, man in free fall. Kicked off the force for killing a protestor, Tarpon is drinking too much and waiting around for something to happen. Then it does. In bursts the wild-eyed and bloodstained Memphis Charles, whose roommate has been brutally murdered. And she wants no one but Tarpon on the case. As the bodies mount, Tarpon is dragged into a Parisian underworld of politics, sleaze, and paranoia - with nothing to guide him but instinct, stubbornness, and a battered sense of justice.With No Room at the Morgue, Manchette rewrote the American hardboiled detective novel into a bleak, boozy, and brilliantly French bruising meditation on guilt, truth, and the art of going down swinging.PRAISE FOR JEAN-PATRICK MANCHETTE'A comedic genius... I read and reread him, stunned, appalled, and laughing out loud' - Rachel Kushner'Manchette is one of the greatest writers since Dashiell Hammett, his only true son and heir' - David Peace'Manchette is Camus on overdrive... He deserves much the same attention' - James Sallis

'The French noir novel you need to help you vent your frustrations right now' LitHub<BR><BR>Murder isn't always ugly.<BR><BR>Aimée is drop-dead gorgeous, razor-sharp, and lethally efficient. A killer with a cool head and a taste for chaos, she arrives in the backwater town of Bléville - a festering stew of grudges, corruption, and small-town rot - ready to make a killing.<BR><BR>It's a game she's played before: stir up trouble, pit the locals against one another, then disappear with blood on her hands and money in her pocket. But this time, something breaks and the game turns on her.<BR><BR>Jean-Patrick Manchette transformed the crime novel into a weapon of satire and stylish mayhem. Fatale is his bloodiest, funniest, and most brilliantly unhinged work: a riot of revenge, farce, and gleeful destruction.<BR><BR>PRAISE FOR JEAN-PARICK MANCHETTE<BR><BR><BR>'Manchette was Le Homme... We must revere him now and rediscover him this very instant. ' James Ellroy<BR><BR>'A comedic genius... I read and reread him, stunned, appalled, and laughing out loud' Rachel Kushner<BR><BR>'Manchette is one of the greatest writers since Dashiell Hammett, his only true son and heir' David Peace<BR><BR>'Manchette is Camus on overdrive... He deserves much the same attention' James Sallis<BR><BR>'Manchette is legend among all of the crime writers I know, and with good reason: his novels never fail to stun and thrill from page one' Duane Swierczynski

'His brutal best' - New York TimesA girl is missing, leaving no leads, no hope, no point - it's just the case for Eugène Tarpon. Tarpon is sleeping in his office once again, when he's offered a job he's too broke to refuse. A distant relative wants him to investigate her daughter's disappearance. The police have given up already, but Tarpon is too much of a gentleman to brush the old lady off. And when something smells off, he's not a man who can stop digging. Skeletons in the Closet takes the bruised and boozy detective of No Room at the Morgue even deeper into the wreckage of modern France. Manchette exposes a world where justice is hollow and decency is just another dead end. PRAISE FOR JEAN-PATRICK MANCHETTE'Writing so dark it gives a new meaning to the word noir' - Frederick Méziès'We must revere him now and rediscover him this very instant' - James Ellroy'A comedic genius...I read and reread him, stunned, appalled, and laughing out loud' - Rachel Kushner