Jean-Claude Izzo in Le Panier, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône (13)

Jean-Claude Izzo (1945-2000), who was born and died in Marseille, wrote detective novels of which the most famous is the 'Marseille trilogy' Total Khéops (1995), Chourmo (1996) and Solea (1998). Fabio Montale is the cop in some of Izzo's novels, and uses Le Bar des 13 Coins in the Le Panier area of Marseille.