Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Origins and beginnings: Léo Malet's 120, rue de la Gare (1943)
2: Criminal Intentions: Film Noir and Les Diabioliques (1955)
3: Counter-Cultural Politics: Jean-Patrick Manchette's Le Petit Bleu de la côte ouest (1976)
4: Historical investigations: Didier Daenickx's Meurtres pour mémoire (1984)
5: Telling Tales: Daniel Pennac's La Fée Carabine (1987)
6: Feminist fictions: Maud Tabachnik's Un été pourri (1994)
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Claire Gorrara is Senior Lecturer in French at Cardiff University. She is author of French Women's Writing and the Occupation in Post-1968 France (Macmillan, 1998) and co-editor of European Memories of the Second World War (Berghahn, 1998) and France Since the Revolution: Texts and Contexts (Arnold, forthcoming 2003).

Reviews

as a highly readable starting point for those wishing to research aspects of French crime fiction, and as a student-friendly survey of themes and trends in post-war French culture, this study has much to recommend it. Modern Law Review