Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend — a mystery that carries him from the gin-soaked jazz clubs of Harlem to the slums of Brooklyn to the gilded halls of New York’s power brokers.

• based on novel or book
• noir
• tourette syndrome
• brooklyn, new york city
• private detective
• murder investigation
• 1950s
• Motherless Brooklyn