"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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