Jean-Patrick Manchette

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 . His stories are violent, existentialist explorations of the human condition and French society. Source: Goodreads.com

Works (12)

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La position du tireur couché

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Trois hommes à abattre

October 23, 1998

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O dingos, ô châteaux!

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Les yeux de la momie

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Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder

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La Princesse de sang

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Romans noirs : Laissez bronzer les cadavres ; L'affaire N'Gustro ; O dingos, ô châteaux ! ; Nada ; Morgue pleine ; Que d'os ! ; Le petit bleu de la ... couché ; Iris ; La princesse de sang ; Griffu

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Like A Sniper Lining Up His Shot

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