“Though private investigators were the most popular figures in crime writing, especially in the work of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ellery Queen, and Rex Stout, no one had created a Black hard-boiled private eye in a noir setting until Ed Lacy's Room to Swing.”
— Leslie Klinger, from Introduction
“You--Detective!”
— Touie must keep tabs on the whereabouts of an accused child molester
“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.”
— Criminal Element
Room to Swing
Year
2013
Pages
158
Praise
“Though private investigators were the most popular figures in crime writing, especially in the work of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ellery Queen, and Rex Stout, no one had created a Black hard-boiled private eye in a noir setting until Ed Lacy's Room to Swing.”
— Leslie Klinger, from Introduction
“You--Detective!”
— Touie must keep tabs on the whereabouts of an accused child molester
“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.”
— Criminal Element
Description
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