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.
Soon bodies mount, and the craziness only grows..
Can Tarpon help? Well, somehow he can\'t help trying.
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.
Then the bell rings and a beautiful woman bursts in, her hands dripping blood.
No one has shown up at the door of his office in the midst of the market district of Les Halles.
Months have passed, and Tarpon desultorily tries to keep in shape while drinking all the time.
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.
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 .
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
