Room to Swing

If you're a Negro private eye from up North, you find it tricky sledding in a small Ohio town, close to the Kentucky border.

But the small town was where Toussaint Moore felt he had to be, to find evidence that would get him off the hook—A real sharp one: Moore was being framed for the murder of a white man.

Moore didn't fit into the town at all. He drove a high-powered sports car, and he believed in standing up for his rights. Fortunately, he found friends—including a girl named Frances Davis, who was of great help to him.

Moore's problems had started in New York, when he had been hired to shadow a wanted criminal as part of the publicity hocus-pocus of a TV show. The problems seemed almost too many—but Moore was determined and skilled, in fighting for his life.

Ed Lacy has written his most unusual story—and one of his most exciting.