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John Dudley Ball

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Born: July 07 1911

Died: 1414 10 19881988

John Dudley Ball writing as John Ball, was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. He was introduced in the 1965 In the Heat of the Night where he solves a murder in a racist Southern small town. It won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an Oscar-winning film of the same name starring Sidney Poitier; the film had two sequels, and spawned a television series several decades later, none of which were based on Ball's later Tibbs stories. He also wrote under the name John Ball Jr..

Ball was born in Schenectady, New York, grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and attended Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He wrote for a number of magazines and newspapers, including the Brooklyn Eagle. For a time he worked part-time as a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy, was trained in martial arts, and was a nudist. In the mid 1980s, he was the book review columnist for Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine. Ball lived in Encino, California, and died there in 1988.

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John Dudley Ball

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Books from John Dudley Ball

In the Heat of the Night

Johnny Get Your Gun

In the Heat of the Night

Phase Three Alert

Miss One Thousand Spring Blossoms

The Cool Cottontail

Five Pieces of Jade

Last Plane Out

The Eyes of Buddha

Rescue Mission

Then Came Violence

In the Heat of the Night

Murder California Style: A Collection of Short Stories

Trouble for Tallon (A Chief Jack Tallon Crime Novel Book 2)

A Killing in the Market

Dragon Hotel

Di Tengah Kegerahan Malam

Johnny Get Your Gun

The Mystery Story

Chief Tallon and the S.O.R.