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, u.
New York Review Of Books No room at the morgue, paperback/jean-patrick manchette
