When Sam Wood, an officer with the Wells police department discovers the body of a famous Italian conductor lying in the road, it spells trouble for the small Carolina town. For the conductor was in town to perform at a musical festival designed to lift the town's sagging economy. The chief of police, Bill Gillespie, is no detective. But salvation inadvertently arrives when Wood arrests a black man with a wallet full of...
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I have watched the movie when it came on TBS. Then I decide to read the book. I thought the book was going to be boring, but I couldn't put it down. The book takes place in an Carolinan city call Wells. There's the chief, William Gillespie and the officer, Sam Woods. Suddenly, an African American dectective name Virgil Tibbs, which is from Pasenda, California, was coming through Wells, but the cops caught him. At the station,...
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Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery and subsequently made into an Academy Award winning movie and successful TV series, In the Heat of the Night is only a decent mystery, but it's a great book about race. Though the book is different in many respects from the better known film, at its core it is still about the dilemmas faced by a proud black detective who is forced to help with a murder investigation in...
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actually my friend said that she had seen this show before and said that the book would be pretty good. At first i thought that the book was gonna be boring but i found out that i couldn't put it down. my friend didn't like the book and didn't recomnd it to people but then i finished the book and thought it was the best book i ever read and i recomended it to everybody i knew.
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In the Heat of the Night by author John Ball is a novel that will be interpreted differently by every person that reads it. For some, it will inspire them. For others, it will be a tool to intensify their anger toward others. Taking place in a Carolinian city called Wells, Chief of Police Bill Gillespie along with Officer Sam Wood must apprehend the murderer of Maestro Mantoli, organizer of a Music Festival that was to put...
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