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In the heat of the night

A corpse end up in the gutter. The black man arrested turns out to be a detective from California. No witnesses, no clues, no apparent motives. All the police have is the talented stranger to help them solve the case.

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  • "In the heat of the night"
  • "In the heat of the night"@it
  • "Dushnoĭ nochʹi︠u︡ v Karoline"

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  • "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 discredit one stereotype by merely adopting another. He deftly manages to write a novel about prejudice and stereotype set in a region of the country where ignorance and racism cause terrible suffering, but avoids making the mistake of depicting every Southerner as ignorant or racist. Just as the portrait here of Virgil Tibb's topples some peoples' notions, portraits of some Southerners in this novel do the same.In the Heat of the Night stands as a classic pop culture document. It is also winner of the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America as well as the Crimewriters' Association's Golden Dagger Award, and it was named one of the hundred greatest detective novels of the century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. The book's main character, Virgil Tibbs, also appears in The Cool Cottontail and Johnny Get Your Gun as part of the Virgil Tibbs mystery series."
  • "A corpse end up in the gutter. The black man arrested turns out to be a detective from California. No witnesses, no clues, no apparent motives. All the police have is the talented stranger to help them solve the case."@en
  • "In the racist Deep South a black California homicide cop is arrested as a suspect in a murder case. The local chief of police persuades the cop's supervisor in California to allow the detective to help solve the case."@en
  • "A Southern town already disturbed by a brutal murder is further upset when a visiting African-American is put in charge of the investigation."@en
  • "When a man is murdered in a small Carolina town the chief suspect, a Negro detective, must work with the local police chief to solve the crime."@en
  • "Negro detective solves a murder in a small Southern town after he has been suspected of the crime."
  • "On a summer night in the Deep South, a corpse is found and Virgil Tibbs is picked up as a suspect. When Chief of Police Gillespie checks on his story, he's shocked to learn that the black man is a top homicide cop in California. With no witnesses, no clues and no apparent motives, the talented Mr. Tibbs seems to be the only hope he has of solving a murder."@en
  • "The basis for the Academy Award-winning movies and the highly acclaimed TV series with Carroll O'Connor, In the Heat of the Night is not only a solid mystery, but a vivid study of racial tension in the pre-Civil Rights South."
  • "African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs solves a murder in a racist Southern small town."

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  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "History"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Krimis, Thriller, Spionage"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Translations"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"

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  • "E ye zhui qi ling"
  • "La calda notte dell'ispettore Tibbs"
  • "La calda notte dell'ispettore Tibbs"@it
  • "Par une chaude nuit d'été"
  • "Natten var hed"
  • "Natten var hed"@da
  • "惡夜追缉令"
  • "In der Hitze der Nacht"
  • "E ye zhui ji ling"
  • "En el calor de la noche"
  • "En el calor de la noche"@es
  • "Dans la chaleur de la nuit"
  • "Di tengah kegerahan malam"
  • "Dodenmars voor de dirigent"
  • "Mi totʻ gisher Karolinayum"
  • "In the heat of the night"
  • "In the heat of the night"@en
  • "La calda notte dell'ispettore tibbs"
  • "Heisser Mond Kriminalroman"
  • "Heisser Mond : Kriminalroman"
  • "In the Heat of the Night"@en
  • "In the Heat of the Night"
  • "恶夜追缉令"
  • "Nuits chaudes"
  • "Dans la chaleur de la nuit : ["In the heat of the night". Traduit par Renée Tesnière.]"
  • "La calda notte dell'Ispettore Tibbs"
  • "Nuits chaudes. ["In the heat of the night". Traduction de Renée Tesnière.]"
  • "Dushnoĭ nochʹi︠u︡ v Karoline ; Pi︠a︡tʹ oskolkov nefrita"
  • "Душной ночью в Каролине ; Пять осколков нефрита"
  • "Par une chaude nuit. dét́e ́ = In the heat of the night"
  • "惡夜專門店"
  • "Dushnoĭ nochʹi︠u︡ v Karoline"
  • "Forró éjszaka : bűnügyi regény"@hu
  • "Forró éjszaka : bűnügyi regény"
  • "惡夜追緝令"

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