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Room to Swing
By (author) Leslie S. Klinger, Illustrated by Ed Lacy
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""It boiled down to a white cop and black me, and he had the 'difference' in his hand."" Toussaint Moore is a college-educated, decorated war veteran. Because he's also a Black man, his employment options are limited, so he ekes out a living as a private eye serving Black clients in and around Harlem where he lives. When he's hired by producers of a television reality show called ""You--Detective!"" to keep tabs on the whereabouts of an accused child molester until the episode airs, the gig goes quickly south; Touie finds the man murdered, and himself framed for the deed. Needing to flee, he goes to the small Ohio town where the deceased was wanted for his crime, thinking the key to the murder may lie there. As Virgil Tibbs would experience years later in John Ball's IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, Touie encounters a whole new level of resistance and racism as a Black man asking questions in a small-minded, predominantly white town. As Scott Adlerberg states in his Feb. 2019 article for Criminal Element): ""What Lacy does in Room to Swing is consider a question Walter Mosely would more fully explore years later in his Easy Rawlins books. Lacy asks whether a black man (in the late fifties) can go everywhere he needs to, with the freedom his job requires, in order to conduct the investigation necessary to crack a case.""
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Publisher | Sourcebooks, Inc
Published date | 4 Nov 2022
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 272
Dimensions | 216 x 140 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-7282-6310-6
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BISAC | fiction / mystery & detective / hard-boiled
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