Writing • AGE 52
Jean-Patrick Manchette (19 December 1942, Marseille – 3 June 1995, Paris) was a French crime novelist credited with reinventing and reinvigorating the genre. He wrote ten short novels in the seventies...


Let the Corpses Tan
Novel
2017

The Gunman
Novel
2015

Polar
Novel
1984

Cover Up
Writer
1983

Legitimate Violence
Screenplay
1982

The Shock
Novel
1982

Time Masters
Dialogue
1982

For a Cop's Hide
Novel
1981

Three Men to Kill
Novel
1980

The Probability Factor
Screenplay
1976

Mad Enough to Kill
Novel
1975

Act of Aggression
Writer
1975

Apostrophes
Self
1975

The Nada Gang
Screenplay
1974

The Slave
Writer
1967

Love + Fear = Torment
Adaptation
1967