by Jean-Patrick Manchette · Distel Literaturverlag Gm · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783923208449
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«Knüppeldick» is a crime novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette, published by Distel Literaturverlag in paperback (182 pages, in German).
Private detective Eugène Tarpon takes on two cases: a pharmacist who suspects a thieving employee and a mother searching for her missing daughter. Both cases conceal a more dangerous plot, involving corrupt police, Breton Nazis, veterans of the Spanish War, and mystical holy men.
Second instalment in the Eugène Tarpon detective series, translated into German by Christina Mansfeld and Stefan Linster; original French «Que d'os!» (1976). Won the Deutscher Krimipreis 2003.
For readers of crime fiction and the French polar, especially fans of Jean-Patrick Manchette and the Eugène Tarpon series.
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 that period. His stories are violent explorations of the human condition and French society. Manchette was politically to the left and his writing reflects this through his analysis of social positions and culture.
