Abstract
LATE WHITE MYSTERY WRITER John Ball created the erudite, straight-laced dedicated black cop Virgil Tibbs. In Ball's groundbreaking 1965 book In the Heat of the Night, Pasadena, California plainclothes detective Tibbs finds himself in Wells, a small southern town somewhere in the Carolinas. The youngish African American is on his way back home after visiting his mother. He will soon find himself investigating a crime in this small southern town. The novel begins from the viewpoint of Sam Wood, a white deputy
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