In the heat of the night
African American police
Southern states, fiction
Thriller
Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
African americans, fiction
Mystery
Police
Large type books
Fiction
Few detective novels can make as strong a claim to social and political relevance as John Ball's 1965 mystery, In the Heat of the Night. Its protagonist, a black police officer from Pasadena California named Virgil Tibbs, passes through a southern town at an inauspicious moment. An orchestra condu…
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