{"product_id":"9781681374185","title":"No Room at the Morgue","description":"By: Jean-Patrick Manchette     \u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Manchette was Le Homme...rediscover him this very instant' - James Ellroy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeet Eugène Tarpon: ex-cop, ex-idealist, man in free fall. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKicked off the force for killing a protestor, Tarpon is drinking too much and waiting around for something to happen. Then it does. In bursts the wild-eyed and bloodstained Memphis Charles, whose roommate has been brutally murdered. And she wants no one but Tarpon on the case. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eNo Room at the Morgue\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePRAISE FOR JEAN-PATRICK MANCHETTE\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A comedic genius... I read and reread him, stunned, appalled, and laughing out loud' - Rachel Kushner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Manchette is one of the greatest writers since Dashiell Hammett, his only true son and heir' - David Peace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Manchette is Camus on overdrive... He deserves much the same attention' - James Sallis \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46584251089123,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781681374185","price":109.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":48898840363235,"sku":"DTRPRUK-9781529977318","price":92.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781681374185.jpg?v=1749877703","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/9781681374185","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}