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In the heat of the night  Cover Image Book Book

In the heat of the night / John Ball ; foreword by John Ridley.

Summary:

Virgil Tibbs, an African-American homicide detective from California, arrives in a 1960s Southern town to conduct an unpopular investigation into a local murder, after being picked up by the local police as the prime suspect in the crime.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780143107743 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 0143107747 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: xii, 158 pages ; 20 cm
  • Edition: 50th anniversary edition.
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Penguin Books, An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"First published in the United States of America by Harper & Row 1965"--Title page verso.
Subject: African American police > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Nineteen sixties > Fiction.
Police > California > Pasadena > Fiction.
Race relations > Fiction.
Racism > Fiction.
North Carolina > Fiction.
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Sage Library System.

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