Etienne, You lulled me from lurkdom long enough to add the
name of one of my favourites, the great Andre Helena to your
list of French writers. He wrote over thirty romans noirs
from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, as well as novels about
WW2, erotic fiction, film scripts, poetry, etc.. He knew and
admired Malet and Georges Arnaud, and set most of novels in
either his native Languedoc-Rousillon or Paris. Over the past
few years, his books have begun to be reprinted in France.
I've only read Les Clients du Central-Hotel and Les Voyageurs
du vendredi, both of which I enjoyed very much. Anyone
interested in him should check out Dossier: Andre Helena in
Polar, no. 23. Also, I always thought the term "polar" was
coined by Manchette, and is short for polaroid- i.e., a crime
novel that functions as a snapshot of society. Woody
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