book cover of Room to Swing
 

Room to Swing

(1957)
(The first book in the Toussaint M. Moore series)
A novel by

 
 
1958 Edgar Award Winner

First appearance of Toussaint Moore, a black private investigator from New York, framed in his own city for a white man's murder. Moore ends up in a small Ohio town, close to the Kentucky border, trying to prove his own innocence and dealing the attitudes of the time.

Fascinating novel, written by Lacy (Len Zinberg), a politically active author from the '30s whose knowledge of the culture is derived from his marriage to an African-American woman. Toussaint "Touie" Moore is considered the original, credible black detective.

Genre: Mystery

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