No Room at the Morgue

Ex-cop, ex-idealist, and man in free fall, Eugene Tarpon has been kicked off the force for killing a protester. Now he''s holed up in a dingy Les Halles office, drinking too much and waiting for something to happen. Then it does. Memphis Charles, wild-eyed and bloodstained, bursts in claiming her roommate''s been brutally murdered - but she can''t go to the police. She wants Tarpon. And for reasons even he can''t explain, he takes the case. As the bodies mount, Tarpon is dragged into a Parisian underworld of politics, sleaze, and paranoia - with nothing to guide him but instinct, stubbornness, and a battered sense of justice. With No Room at the Morgue , Manchette rewrote the American hardboiled detective novel into a bleak, boozy, and brilliantly French bruising meditation on guilt, truth, and the art of going down swinging.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Patrick Manchette, Manchette Jean-Patrick
• Assisted by: Thorne Lucy (Editor), Waters Alyson (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 16.07.2026
• EAN: 9781529977318
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-7731-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Crime, France, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Noir, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, FICTION / World Literature / France / 20th Century, Narrative theme: politics / economics