W. Ross Macdonald School Library

In the Heat of the Night /

by Ball, John Dudley, Edition statement:Special Canadian educational edition. Published by : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, ([Toronto] :) Physical details: 194 pages ; 19 cm ISBN:0889020299.
Subject(s): Prejudices -- Fiction. | Racism -- Fiction. | Black people -- Fiction. | Police officers -- Fiction. | FICTION / African American & Black / Mystery & Detective.
Year: 1965 Item type: Print
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It's the 1960s. A hot August night lies heavy over the Carolinas. The corpse -- legs sprawled, stomach down on the concrete pavement, arms above the head -- brings the patrol car to a halt. The local police pick up a black stranger named Virgil Tibbs, only to discover that their most likely suspect is a homicide detective from California -- and the racially tense community's single hope in solving a brutal murder that turns up no witnesses, no motives, no clues.

Edgar Award for Best First Novel, 1966

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