class="MsoNormal">"The dank and sweaty crime scenes in Paris Noirtestify to the fact that the French invented noir. Among the jarring images in this story collection, Didier Daeninckx s murky view of the after-hours scene in Porte Saint-Denis and Marc Villard s gritty look at the sex trade in Les Halles are correctives to all those persistent romantic fantasies about the city. "New York Times"
"Paris Noir "takes you on a ride through the old medieval center of town with its winding streets, its ghosts, and its secrets buried in history. This is more than an homage to the crime genre,...