# No Room at the Morgue

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- Authors: [Jean-Patrick Manchette](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-patrick-manchette)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2026-07-16

## Description

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

## Editions

### No Room at the Morgue

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Translated by: Alyson Waters
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-2997-730-1
- Published: 2026-07-16
- Language: en_GB

### No Room at the Morgue

- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-16-8137-418-5
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2020-08-11
- Language: en_US