num_pages: 185
description: Virgil Tibbs, an African-American homicide detective from California, arrives in a 1960s Southern town to conduct an unpopular investigation into a local murder, after being picked up by the local police as the prime suspect in the crime. Reprint.
language: English
title: In the Heat of the Night
titlecomplete: In the Heat of the Night (Virgil Tibbs, #1)
genres: Classics, American, Mystery, Detective, Thriller, Historical Fiction, School, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 2764
places: Wells, South Carolina, South Carolina
series: Virgil Tibbs
awards: awardedAt: -126201600000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub