Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder: The Complete Graphic Noir of Manchette & Tardi Vol. 1

This book gives you two routes into French hardboiled crime. In Griffu, a legal adviser takes a case that draws him into real estate fraud. In West Coast Blues, helping an accident victim puts a young salesman in the path of hired killers. Try the two stories together to see how Tardi’s black-and-white pages make routine places feel dangerous without obscuring who did what.