On 15 October 2004,
Carroach@aol.com wrote:
: I'm a global gal: I lived in France for about 13 years in
another life.
: Does anyone out there know of other French mystery/crime
writers in
: addition to Simenon? It doesn't matter if they are
translated.
Leo Malet and Jean-Patrick Manchette are two favourite French
writers on the list. Manchette has two books in translation
from City Lights, but both shouldn't be too hard to find if
you can get French language (perhaps out of print?) books.
I've read some of Malet's Nestor Burma novels (in
translation) and they were very good. Burma is more a cynical
hardboiled private detective, and Manchette's stuff are very
lean, tight, noir crime novels. Interestingly, Malet was a
surrealist and Manchette a Situationist.
Georgette Heyer is not germane to the list. She's a fine
writer, but neither hardboiled nor noir.
Bill
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