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Jean-Patrick Manchette (19 December 1942, Marseille – 3 June 1995, Paris) 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.
Jean-Patrick Manchette, né le 19 décembre 1942 à Marseille et mort le 3 juin 1995 à Paris 12 e, est un écrivain français, auteur de romans policiers, critique littéraire et de cinéma, scénariste et dialoguiste de cinéma, et traducteur.
Dec 4, 2020 · Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995) was a prolific French crime novelist, film and TV scriptwriter, translator, critic, and all-around laborer in Grub Street.
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 the 1970s - 1980s .
Aug 5, 2020 · Memorable, violent, alone. Eugène Tarpon, Manchette’s private eye in No Room at the Morgue, is among these nations of one. Like many fictional private eyes he’s come to the end of his rope; in fact, as the novel begins, he’s already thrown his badge in the river.
Jan 1, 2001 · An unholy original, Jean-Patrick Manchette transformed the modern detective novel into a weapon of gleeful satire and anarchic fun. In Fatale he mixes equal measures of farce, mayhem, and madness to prepare a rare literary cocktail that packs a devastating punch.
Sep 3, 2020 · This familiar diagnosis comes from “Three to Kill”, a French noir novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette, published in 1976. As he wrote, far-left terrorists in Europe were bombing and kidnapping their...
