In The Heat of the Night is John Ball’s Virgil Tibbs series. Not only is it a superior crime in a Sherlock Holmes style but relevant statement on ignorance in the Jim Crow era.

Hopefully no one will edit this one for sensitivity in the future or ban it from education.

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