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Room to Swing

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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 , 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 first credible black detective.

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Blackmask.com

Release: May 01, 2005

ISBN: 1596542098

ISBN 13: 9781596542099

Room to Swing

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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 , 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 first credible black detective.

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Blackmask.com

Release: May 01, 2005

ISBN: 1596542098

ISBN 13: 9781596542099

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