Description
When Madame Motamboru, widow of the assassinated President of Bakara, is framed for murder in Singapore, she requests that her old friend Virgil Tibbs take part in the investigation. Because of U.S. interests in the area, Tibbs is cleared for passage.
Upon arrival, Tibbs finds that the police there are convinced of Madame Motamboru's guilt. All the evidence says that only she could have shot the man who visited her hotel suite. It's up to Tibbs to save her from hanging by uncovering the truth and outwitting the sinister organization that wants her dead.
And when Tibbs gets involved in another more bizarre murder case, it will take all of his legendary intelligence and cool-headed savvy to find the answers to two deadly and, apparently, unsolvable puzzles.
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Virgil Tibbs Series
In the Heat of the Night
By: John Ball
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The pioneering novel featuring African American police detective Virgil Tibbs
“They call me Mr. Tibbs” was the line immortalized by Sidney Poitier in the 1967 Oscar-winning movie adaptation of In the Heat of the Night, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award and was named one of the 100... Read more »
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The Cool Cottontail
By: John Ball
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
In the second audiobook of the acclaimed Virgil Tibbs mystery series, Tibbs finds himself at a nudist colony in Los Angeles where the victim (who was not one of the guests) is found floating dead in the pool. Set against this unusual backdrop, the guests of the resort prefer guarding their secrets to solving the murder mystery, particularly when... Read more »
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Johnny Get Your Gun
By: John Ball
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The third novel in the acclaimed Virgil Tibbs mystery series
When a nine-year-old boy shoots an older child, a race war is ignited between militant blacks and racist whites of 1960s Pasadena. Follow black homicide detective Virgil Tibbs as he investigates the scene of the conflict involving riots, brutalities, a chase through Disneyland, and a... Read more »
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Five Pieces of Jade
By: John Ball
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Who murdered the importer? Was it Yumeko, the beautiful half-black, half-Japanese girl who lived with him? Johnny Wu, a rich Chinese-American? Another customer? Or a political enemy from overseas?
Homicide detective Virgil Tibbs finds himself in the middle of a deadly situation involving hard drugs, Communist Chinese agents, and the exotic... Read more »
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The Eyes of Buddha
By: John Ball
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A partially decomposed body of a young woman is discovered in a park in Pasadena, California. The woman was strangled but not sexually assaulted. The police suspect she might be a missing heiress who disappeared over a year ago, but dental records prove them wrong. But who is she? And is there a link between the heiress and this corpse? The... Read more »
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Then Came Violence
By: John Ball
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Virgil Tibbs, the cool, highly-competent black detective of the Pasadena Police Department, returns one day to his bachelor apartment to find that it has been expertly stripped to the bare walls—not a thing remains to show that he has ever lived there. At headquarters he is given a cryptic note from Police Chief McGowan, sending him to a certain... Read more »
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Singapore
By: John Ball
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
When Madame Motamboru, widow of the assassinated President of Bakara, is framed for murder in Singapore, she requests that her old friend Virgil Tibbs take part in the investigation. Because of U.S. interests in the area, Tibbs is cleared for passage.
Upon arrival, Tibbs finds that the police there are convinced of Madame Motamboru's guilt. All... Read more »
Learn more