
Lionel Essrog, a private investigator living with Tourette disorder, dares to explain the homicide of his coach and closest companion a puzzle that conveys him from the gin-splashed jazz clubs of Harlem to the ghettos of Brooklyn to the overlaid corridors of New York’s capacity specialists.
Motherless Brooklyn, where we went to New York in the 1950s, focuses on a detective named Lionel Essrog. Essrog suffers from a condition called Tourette’s Syndrome. On the one hand he struggles with the sudden tics of the syndrome and on the other hand he has to investigate the death of his friend Frank Minna. He only has a few tips and his mind running like an hour. Lionel will endeavor to solve the secrets that keep the whole city in balance …