{"product_id":"skeletons-in-the-closet-isbn-9781681377605","title":"Skeletons in the Closet","description":"\u003cb\u003eEugéne Tarpon, the private-eye protagonist from Manchette’s \u003ci\u003eNo Room at the Morgue\u003c\/i\u003e, appears once more for a characteristically brisk and brutal story full of unexpected comedy and feeling.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ePrivate eye Eugéne Tarpon is back to sleeping in his office, waiting for a paying job to turn up. Then he gets a call from a sometime contact in the police department. He's referring a nice old lady—a distant relative—to Tarpon; her daughter's gone missing and, the copy says, there's no finding her. There are no leads. She's gone. But the old lady's pigheaded. Do me a favor, he tells Tarpon. Humor her. Take her off our hands. Take her money, too. And, by the way, there's no need to investigate the actual business at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTarpon may be down and out, but he's too much of a gentleman for that. Plus, fed an obviously fishy story, he doesn't have it in him to let well enough alone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce again, Tarpon is making a very big mistake.“I’m already on record saying that I’d rather read the French noir writer — even one of his less-than-successful efforts — than most contemporary genre writers, and \u003ci\u003eSkeletons in the Closet\u003c\/i\u003e...is up there with his brutal best.” —Sarah Weinman, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Manchette—polymath, chess whiz, jazz superenthusiast, comic-book lover, literary genius....He compels us to examine the stories we tell ourselves in light of the bigger oppressive stories unfolding around us, to think about history as something we collectively make as well as something that makes us.\" —Gary Indiana\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jean-Patrick Manchette was a decades-long hurricane through the Parisian cultural scene. We must revere him now and rediscover him this very instant. Jean-Patrick Manchette was \u003ci\u003eLe Homme.\u003c\/i\u003e\" —James Ellroy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Writing so dark it gives a new meaning to the world noir.\" —Frederick Méziès\u003cb\u003eJean-Patrick Manchette\u003c\/b\u003e (1942–1995) was a genre-redefining French crime novelist, screenwriter, critic, and translator. In 1971 he published his first novel, a collaboration with Jean-Pierre Bastid, and embarked on his literary career in earnest, producing ten subsequent works over the course of the next two decades and establishing a new genre of French detective novel. NYRB Classics publishes his \u003ci\u003eFatale\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mad and the Bad\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIvory Pearl, Nada\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe N'Gustro Affair,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNo Room at the Morgue.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlyson Waters \u003c\/b\u003eis a prize-winning translator of literary fiction from French to English. She has translated \u003ci\u003eA King Alone \u003c\/i\u003eby Jean Giono, \u003ci\u003eProud Beggars\u003c\/i\u003e by Albert Cossery, \u003ci\u003eNo Room at the Morgue\u003c\/i\u003e by Jean-Patrick Manchette, and \u003ci\u003eHenri Duchemin and His Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e by Emmanuel Bove, all available from NYRB Classics. For NYRB Kids, she has translated \u003ci\u003eOur Fort\u003c\/i\u003e by Marie Dorléans and \u003ci\u003eThe Tiger Prince\u003c\/i\u003e by Chen Jiang Hong.  She lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303349768421,"sku":"NP9781681377605","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681377605.jpg?v=1767736718","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/skeletons-in-the-closet-isbn-9781681377605","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}