Penguin Classics In the Heat of the Night: The Original Virgil Tibbs Novel, (Paperback)

from JBreedlove

Gave it a 4.5 because while reading the images of Rod Steiger and Sydney Poitier and cast kept running in my mind. Great read. The book was tight with no fluff and no glossing over of the hard attitudes of Southerners on race. The grudging respect at the end of the book read well. Not sure if you...

from GTTexas

A great mystery. Should have read it years ago.

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Even fans of the classic film version of "In the Heat of the Night" should find the original novel engrossing. It's a bit more of a whodunit than the film, but the racial tension is strong and the point-of-view characters are exposed in a third-person-omniscient approach that captures the attitud...

from Crazymamie

Virgil Tibbs happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, which is how he gets taken into custody on suspicion of murder. Turns out our Mr. Tibbs is not only innocent, he is a homicide investigator from Pasadena, California on his way back home after visiting his mother. Now the small town...

from JBreedlove

Gave it a 4.5 because while reading the images of Rod Steiger and Sydney Poitier and cast kept running in my mind. Great read. The book was tight with no fluff and no glossing over of the hard attitudes of Southerners on race. The grudging respect at the end of the book read well. Not sure if you...