Books written by Jean-Patrick Manchette

  • No Room at the Morgue
    No Room at the Morgue

    Ask for Mrs . Malone . ” That was the name the kid had used when she signed the register for us . “ Tell the person I ' m in prison and that I advise her to go to the police . ” “ You ' re in prison , Mr . Tarpon !

  • Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder: The Complete Graphic Noir of Machette & Tardi Vol. 1
    Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder: The Complete Graphic Noir of Machette & Tardi Vol. 1

    This volume also offers a bonus, 21-page unfinished story by Manchette and Tardi, as well as a single page introduction to another incomplete story, both appearing in English for the first time.

  • The Mad and the Bad
    The Mad and the Bad

    Thompson pursues. Bullets fly. Bodies accumulate. The craziness is just getting started. Like Jean-Patrick Manchette’s celebrated Fatale, The Mad and the Bad is a clear-eyed, cold-blooded, pitch-perfect work of creative destruction.

  • No Room at the Morgue
    No Room at the Morgue

    ... WILLIAM MCPHERSON Testing the Current MEZZ MEZZROW AND BERNARD WOLFE Really the Blues HENRI MICHAUX Miserable Miracle JESSICA MITFORD Hons and Rebels JESSICA MITFORD Poison Penmanship NANCY MITFORD Frederick the Great NANCY MITFORD ...

  • Les yeux de la momie: chroniques de cinéma
    Les yeux de la momie: chroniques de cinéma

    Pendant trois ans, parallèlement à ses activités d'auteur de romans noirs, de scénariste et de chroniqueur de polar, l'auteur tient pour "Charlie-Hebdo" la chronique cinéma. Voici une édition intégrale de...

  • Ivory Pearl
    Ivory Pearl

    Though left unfinished when Manchette died, the book, whose full plot has been filled in here from the author’s notes, is a masterpiece of bold suspense and black comedy: chilling, caustic, and perfectly choreographed.

  • The Prone Gunman
    The Prone Gunman

    A tour de force, this violent tale shatters as many illusions about life and politics as it does bodies. Jean-Patrick Manchette subjects his characters and the reader alike to a fierce exercise in style.

  • Fatale
    Fatale

    An unholy original, Jean-Patrick Manchette transformed the modern detective novel into a weapon of gleeful satire and anarchic fun.

  • Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder: The Complete Graphic Noir of Manchette & Tardi Vol. 2
    Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder: The Complete Graphic Noir of Manchette & Tardi Vol. 2

    The second of two volumes presenting all four hardboiled graphic crime novels by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Tardi.

  • Ivory Pearl
    Ivory Pearl

    ... Twilight at Mac's Place . May . Fatigue prevents him from accepting an invitation to the Noir In Festival at Viareggio to receive the Raymond Chandler Award . Summer . He spends another summer in different medical institutions . Beset ...

  • The Gunman (Movie Tie-In Edition)
    The Gunman (Movie Tie-In Edition)

    In a violent tale that shatters as many illusions as bodies, Jean-Patrick Manchette subjects his characters and the reader alike to a fierce exercise in style.This tightly plotted, corrosive parody of "the success story" is widely ...

  • The Prone Gunman: City Lights Noir
    The Prone Gunman: City Lights Noir

    Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game-so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart.

  • Three To Kill
    Three To Kill

    Yet in this short novel there is no lack of atmosphere, excitement, characters or descriptive writing, it is just the total lack of unnecessary material that makes the story seem so lean and mean."—Norman Price, EuroCrime "A social satire ...

  • The Gunman
    The Gunman

    Bursting with Gallic irony and visceral brutality, The Gunman (originally published in English as The Prone Gunman) is a shocking and sardonic masterpiece from the late, great master of the French crime novel, J-P Manchette.

  • The N'Gustro Affair
    The N'Gustro Affair

    But this is merely the backdrop to Jean-Patrick Manchette’s first-person portrait (with shades of Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me) of a man who lacks the insight to see himself for what he is: a wannabe nihilist too weak to be even ...

  • Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot
    Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot

    The Tardi/Manchette team of West Coast Blues reunites for another brutal neo-noir classic.

  • Fatale
    Fatale

    An unholy original, Jean-Patrick Manchette transformed the modern detective novel into a weapon of gleeful satire and anarchic fun.