In the Heat of the Night (1965) - John Ball

Category: Crime, Mystery, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Jim Crow US Civil Rights Virgil Tibbs

Written by John Ball
Read by Dion Graham
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

In the Heat of the Night
Virgil Tibbs, Book 1
By: John Ball
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Series: Virgil Tibbs, Book 1
Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 22-06-2015
Language: English
Publisher: Brilliance Audio

The pioneering novel featuring African American police detective Virgil Tibbs

“They call me Mr. Tibbs” was the line immortalized by Sidney Poitier in the 1967 Oscar-winning movie adaptation of In the Heat of the Night, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award and was named one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Now fans of classic crime can rediscover this suspense-filled novel whose hero paved the way for James Patterson’s Alex Cross, George Pelecanos’s Derek Strange, and other African American detectives.

A small southern town in the 1960s. A musician found dead on the highway. It’s no surprise when white detectives arrest a black man for the murder. What is a surprise is that the black man - Virgil Tibbs - is not the killer but a skilled homicide detective, passing through racially tense Wells, South Carolina, on his way back to California. Even more surprising, Wells’s new police chief recruits Tibbs to help with the investigation. But Tibbs’s presence in town rubs some of the locals the wrong way, and it won’t be long before the martial arts-trained detective has to fight not just for justice, but also for his own safety.

©1965 John Ball (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

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