One of my favorite literary genres is French twentieth-century crime fiction, roughly from the 1930s (Georges Simenon) via the 1950s (Léo Malet) to the 1970s (Jean-Patrick Manchette). This is quite a large area, so one of the things I would like to do, if the state of text digitization and copyright law will permit it some day, is to do computational text analysis on a large collection of such texts. This is the cover of the 1970s band Factory's album "Cache ta joie", the soundtrack to Jean-.