by Horace McCoy · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070379224
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«Un linceul n'a pas de poches» is the crime novel by Horace McCoy, published by Gallimard in paperback in 1988 (283 pages, in French).
The author transports the reader to the American Great Depression to tell a dark, gritty story, with an oppressive atmosphere and a backdrop of crime and social tension, in the tradition of classic hard-boiled fiction.
Originally published in 1937 as No Pockets in a Shroud. This French-language edition appeared in 1988 in the Folio collection, with a translation by Sabine Berritz and Marcel Duhamel.
For readers of classic crime novels and American hard-boiled fiction who appreciate stories set during the Great Depression.
Horace Stanley McCoy was an American writer whose mostly hardboiled stories took place during the Great Depression. His best-known novel is They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935), which was made into a movie of the same name in 1969, fourteen years after McCoy's death.
