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A Black Pasadena detective is pulled into a murder case in a hostile Southern town, confronting racial prejudice while solving the crime.
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A Black Pasadena detective is pulled into a murder case in a hostile Southern town, confronting racial prejudice while solving the crime.
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Few detective novels can make as strong a claim to social and political relevance as John Ball's 1965 mystery, In the Heat of the Night. Its protagonist, a black police officer from Pasadena California named Virgil Tibbs, passes through a southern town at an inauspicious moment. An orchestra conductor has been gruesomely murdered, and the police, without much in the way of evidence or possible motives for the crime, arrest Tibbs. When the police discover that he is not the killer, but in fact...
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Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Murder with a body found; investigation peril; not highly graphic
Profanity
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Frequent racial slurs depicting era bigotry; strong hostile language
Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Central Civil Rights-era themes of racism and racial prejudice
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Systemic racism, false arrest, harassment, and discriminatory cruelty
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