Léo Malet (7 March 1909 – 3 March 1996) was a French crime novelist and surrealist. Leo Malet was born in Montpellier. He had little formal education and began work as a cabaret singer at "La Vache Enragee" in Montmartre, Paris in 1925. In the 1930s, he was closely aligned with the Surrealists, an...