No Room at the Morgue

Name: No Room at the Morgue
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ISBN: 9781529977318

Jean-Patrick Manchette, Alyson Waters, Lucy Thorne

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Vintage Classics
27 October 2026

Classic crime; Fiction in translation

Radical, ruthless - and razor-sharp. Welcome to the brutal, revolutionary crime thrillers of Jean-Patrick Manchette, reissued by Vintage Classics in a major new celebratory series

Ex-cop, ex-idealist, and man in free fall, Eug ne 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.

By: Jean-Patrick Manchette
Edited by: Lucy Thorne
Translated by: Alyson Waters
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9781529977318
ISBN 10: 1529977312
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 27 October 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995) was a crime novelist, screenwriter, critic, and translator. In 1971 he published his first novel and went on to establish a new genre of French novel, the neo-polar. Vintage Classics publishes his Fatale, Nada, No Room at the Morgue and Skeletons in the Closet.