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In the heat of the night
Stirling Silliphant
Published
by Screenwriters Store in London
.
Written in
A bigotted sheriff is horrified to learn that he must aid a coloured detective in his murder investigation when he comes to his small town. Oscar winning classic. (1967).
Edition Notes
| Statement | by Stirling Silliphant; [directed by Norman Jewison]. |
| Contributions | Jewison, Norman, 1926- |
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Pagination | 140 leaves ; |
| Number of Pages | 140 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL19046807M |
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John Ball was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs was introduced in the novel In the Heat of the Night, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an Oscar-winning film of the same name/5(97).
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In the Heat of the Night by John Ball is one of those classic novels that does so much more than transcend the genre, it lays the foundation for it. The African American Detective who demanded respect not only for his actions, but for his intellect as well/5.
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John Ball ’s In the Heat of the Night was published in against the backdrop of the American civil rights movement. Set in North Carolina, In the Heat of the Night follows a black Californian detective, Virgil Tibbs, who is asked to help the local police force investigate a murder.
In the Heat of the Night Critics Consensus. Tense, funny, and thought-provoking all at once, and lifted by strong performances from Sydney Poitier and Rod Steiger, director Norman Jewison's look 94%.
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John Ball was a year-old columnist and music critic when he wrote the whodunit In The Heat Of The Night in He was also a first-time novelist, which makes his Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America even more impressive.
Philip Colbert, a wealthy man from Chicago who was planning to build a factory in the rural town of Sparta, Mississippi, is found murdered. Police Chief Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger) comes under pressure to quickly find Colbert's killer.
African-American northerner Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), passing through, is picked up at the train station. In the Heat of the Night essays are academic essays for citation.
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Tibbs” was the line immortalized by Sidney Poitier in the Oscar-winning movie adaptation of In the Heat. 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.
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Few detective novels can make as strong a claim to social and political relevance as John Ball's 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.
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