From surrealism to less-exquisite cadavers : Léo Malet and the evolution of the French Roman Noir / Michelle Emanuel ; with a foreword by Peter Schulman.
Les nouveaux mystères de Paris (1954-1959), Léo Malet's fifteen-novel detective series inspired by Eugène Sue's nineteenth-century feuilleton, almost achieved the goal of setting a mystery in each of the twenty Parisian arrondissements, with Nestor Burma at the center of the action. In...
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