No Room at the Morgue

'Manchette was Le Homme.rediscover him this very instant' - James Ellroy

Meet 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

Contributor: Alyson Waters (Translated by)

Translator: Alyson Waters

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