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No Room at the Morgue by Jean-Patrick Manchette is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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....

Who reads No Room at the Morgue?

Author

Jean-Patrick Manchette

Publisher

New York Review Books

Published

2020

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Thriller, True Crime, Crime

Rating

4.3 / 5 (125 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14