足够宽敞的空间（美国国会图书馆经典犯罪推理系列） Room to Swing

基本信息

Illustrated by:Ed Lacy

Series:Library of Congress Crime Classics

Format:Paperback / softback 272 pages

Publisher:Sourcebooks, Inc

Imprint:Poisoned Pen Press

ISBN:9781728263106

Published:4 Nov 2022

Dimensions:216 x 140 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

“归根结底，警察是白人，而我是黑人，他掌握着‘区别’。”

托桑特·摩尔是一名受过大学教育、获得过战功的退伍军人。由于他也是一名黑人，他的就业选择有限，因此他只能勉强维持生计，在居住地哈莱姆区及周边地区担任私家侦探，为黑人客户服务。当他被一档名为“你——侦探！”的电视真人秀节目的制片人雇佣，负责在节目播出前跟踪一名被指控的儿童性骚扰者的下落时，这份工作很快就失败了；托桑特发现该男子被谋杀，而他自己被诬陷为凶手。为了逃跑，他去了俄亥俄州的一个小镇，死者因犯罪而被通缉，他认为谋杀的关键可能就在那里。正如维吉尔·蒂布斯多年后在约翰·鲍尔的《夜色下》中所经历的那样，托桑特作为一个黑人，在一个心胸狭窄、以白人为主的小镇上提问，遭遇了全新层面的抵抗和种族主义。

正如斯科特·阿德勒伯格 (Scott Adlerberg) 在 2019 年 2 月为《犯罪分子》撰写的文章中所说：“莱西在《摇摆空间》中思考了一个问题，沃尔特·莫斯利几年后在他的《伊斯·罗林斯》系列丛书中对此进行了更充分的探讨。莱西问道，一个黑人（五十年代末期）是否可以去任何他需要去的地方，拥有他的工作所需的自由，以便进行破案所需的调查。”

"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 youngster 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."

作者简介

艾德·莱西 (1911 年 8 月 25 日 - 1968 年 1 月 7 日)，本名伦纳德·“伦”·S·辛伯格，是一位美国犯罪和侦探小说作家。莱西是白人，他创造了小说中“一位可信的非裔美国私家侦探”角色，即图桑特·“图伊”·马库斯·摩尔。他于 1957 年创作的小说《摇摆空间》介绍了图伊·摩尔，并获得了 1958 年埃德加最佳小说奖。

ED LACY (August 25, 1911 - January 7, 1968), born Leonard "Len" S. Zinberg, was an American writer of crime and detective fiction. Lacy, who was white, is credited with creating "the first credible African-American PI" character in fiction, Toussaint "Touie" Marcus Moore. Room to Swing, his 1957 novel that introduced Touie Moore, received the 1958 Edgar Award for Best Novel.