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In the heat of the night: the original virgil tibbs novel

✍ Scribed by John Ball

Publisher: RosettaBooks;Carroll & Graf
Year: 1965;2001
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 98 KB
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf trade pbk. ed
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 079531941X

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✦ Synopsis

John Ball's 1965 mystery In the Heat of the Night tells the story of a black police officer named Virgil Tibbs who happens to be passing through a southern town at a particularly inauspicious moment. An orchestra conductor has been brutally murdered and the local police, without much in the way of real evidence, arrest Tibbs. On discovering that Tibbs is not the real killer but rather a highly-skilled homicide detective, the local police enlist Tibbs to help solve the case.

Several factors made (and make) this novel so very relevant and timely. For one, the hero is a black police officer, which at the time the book was written was not a very common figure in popular culture. Tibbs's investigation leads him through the backwater town and exposes him to different forms of prejudice harbored by the townspeople. His urban sophistication and his California background also rankle the townspeople. A major accomplishment with this novel is that author John Ball refuses to...

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