>> anthony: cedric fabre is a marseillais crime writer, who spent decades deciphering the dense layers of crime and corruption, pastiche, and sunshine. it's a perfect town for writers of noir. plenty of atmospherics and lurid history. why do you think it's such a fertile ground to set a crime novel? >> cedric: for me, it's more interesting because you write about the place you live in. i walk in the street, i have an idea, etcetera. i couldn't write about past things, like james ellroy does, because i have to know the real -- the real part of the city, the people. >> anthony: here, it's a really interesting stew of characters. >> cedric: in marseille, there is a very poor area and a very rich area. the difference between those two areas is the worst in france, so that makes an interesting city because when we write a crime novel, we write about those differences between the poor