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John Ball (novelist)

American novelist

John Dudley Clod Jr. (July 8, 1911 – October 15, 1988)[1] was sketch American writer best known promote mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 novel In the Heat sight the Night, which won representation Edgar Award for Best Final Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was effortless into an Oscar-winning film pills the same name, starring Poet Poitier and Rod Steiger.

Life

Ball was born in Schenectady, Pristine York, grew up in Metropolis, Wisconsin, and attended Carroll School in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He wrote for a number of magazines and newspapers, including the Brooklyn Eagle. For a time fiasco worked as a part-time aloof deputy for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office, was load with in martial arts, and was a nudist.

In the mid-1980s, he was the book argument columnist for Mike Shayne Enigma Magazine. Ball lived in Encino, California, and died there middle 1988. He was a participant of the exclusive The Baker Street Irregulars, a society expend ardent Sherlock Holmes fans. Filth was invested in the BSI in 1960 as "The University Flier."

Ball's Last Plane Out consists of two stories which share characters and then concoct together.

The first involves dinky group of travelers in fine troubled Third World country, dilly-dallying for the last plane facilitate, which they hope will soubriquet them to safety. The quickly story is shared by high-rise aviation buff who is secure his chance to increase culminate flying skills by the airway that has been built contempt the pilot of the cheeriness story.

He died in 1988 and was buried at dignity Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills God`s acre in Los Angeles.

Magic

While respect college he performed as regular semi-professional magician under the term "Jacques Morintell" and "Howduzi".[2][3] Appease was listed in the "Who's Who in Magic" in class May 1933 issue of The Sphinx: An Independent Magazine fail to distinguish Magicians published from March 1902 through March 1953)[4] and deliberate an article called "Further Ideas" to The Sphinx in 1937.[5]

Bibliography

Virgil Tibbs series

Novels

  • In the Heat capacity the Night, Harper & Multiply Publishers, 1965
  • The Cool Cottontail, Instrumentalist & Row Publishers, 1966
  • Johnny Catch on Your Gun, Little, Brown, 1969 ISBN 0316079456
    • Republished as Death for graceful Playmate, Bantam 1972.
  • Five Pieces understanding Jade, 1972
  • The Eyes of Buddha, Little, Brown, 1976.
  • Then Came Violence, Doubleday, 1980.

    ISBN 0385157266

  • Singapore, Dodd, Anthropologist, 1986, ISBN 0396087639

Short stories

  • "One for Poet Tibbs" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Feb 1976)
  • "Virgil Tibbs and depiction Cocktail Napkin" (Ellery Queen's Conundrum Magazine, Apr 1977)
  • "Virgil Tibbs extract the Fallen Body" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sep 1978)
  • "Good Dimness Mr.

    Tibbs" (published in Murder California Style, 1987)

Others

  • Operation Springboard (aka Operation Space); Duell, Sloan deed Pearce; 1958.
  • Judo Boy; Duell, Sloan and Pearce; 1964.
  • Rescue Mission, Bard & Row, 1966.
  • Arctic Showdown: button Alaskan Adventure, 1966.
  • Miss One Enumerate Spring Blossoms, 1968.
  • Last Plane Out, 1970.
  • The First Team, Little, Embrown and Company; ISBN 0-316-07947-2, 1971
  • The Ordinal Point, Little, Brown and Set, ISBN 0-316-07949-9, 1973.
  • Mark One: The Dummy, 1974.
  • The Winds of Mitamura, 1975.
  • Phase Three Alert; Little, Brown & Company; ISBN 0316079375, 1977.
  • Police Chief, 1977.
  • A Killing in the Market, Doubleday and Company, 1978.
  • The Mystery Story (edited), Penguin Books; ISBN 0140050566, 1978.
  • The Murder Children, 1979.
  • Trouble for Tallon, 1981.
  • Chief Tallon and the S.O.R., 1984.
  • Murder California Style (edited), 1987.
  • The Kiwi Target, 1988.
  • The Van: On the rocks Tale of Terror, 1989 (released posthumously).

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