modern europe
crime
Jean-Patrick Manchette was a French crime novelist credited with reinventing and reinvigorating the genre. He wrote ten short novels in the seventies and early eighties, and is widely recognized as the foremost French crime fiction author of that period. His stories are violent explorations of the human condition and French society. Manchette was politically to the left and his writing reflects this through his analysis of social positions and culture.Wikipedia →
Works
L'Affaire N'Gustro
The N'Gustro Affair
French · 1971Novel
1 translation
Laissez bronzer les Cadavres
Lets the Corpses Tan
French · 1971Novel
1 translation
Nada
Nada
French · 1972Novel
1 translation
O dingos, O chateaux!
The Mad and the Bad
French · 1972Novel
1 translation
Morgue pleine
No Room at the Morgue
French · 1973Novel
1 translation
Fatale
Fatale
French · 1977Novel
1 translation
La Princesse du Sang
The Princess of the Blood
French · 1996Novel
1 translation