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  <title><![CDATA[In the Heat of the Night]]></title>
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  <default_description>It's the 1960s. A hot August night lies heavy over the Carolinas. The corpse -- legs sprawled, stomach down on the concrete pavement, arms above the head -- brings the patrol car to a halt. The local police pick up a black stranger named Virgil Tibbs, only to discover that their most likely suspect is a homicide detective from California -- and the racially tense community's single hope in solving a brutal murder that turns up no witnesses, no motives, no clues.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1981</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this novel this year in my English class. Upon finding out what novel we were to be reading, I was rather disappointed. When we first began, I knew right away that this was not my type of novel, but since it was to be read in class in preperation for a test I forced myself to continue. I'm gl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60207625">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A murder occurs in a small Southern town of Wells, and the first suspect, a black man who just happens to be in the wrong place (the town of Wells) at the wrong time (after the body is found), turns out to be Virgil Tibbs, a homicide investigater from California.  It's a small embarrassment for the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39756296">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A quite entertaining, though not necessarily very ambitious, murder mystery. It is quite different from the Academy-Award-winning movie; for once, I prefer the movie.<br/><br/>The book is set in Wells, MS, and deals with the death of Maestro Mantolli, an Italian conductor who wants to set up a mus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6016094">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic, this is my second reading. I think of it as a metaphor for the changing attitudes of this country on race. Two characters over the course of the book come to reflect on their views and begin to change, one more so, just from working with the black Virgil Tibbs. That's all it takes, being ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52643164">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="79467759">
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this on a bookshelf at my grandparents' house, and was pretty much just looking for a good read at the time.  I've been looking for as good a mystery since.<br/><br/>This book was more than a mystery for me.  It was pushed by character, history and politics.  Not a long book, and not a tou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79467759">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[THis book was good and hard to read at the same time. It made you want to slap some one]]></body>
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    <review id="51755086">
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    <body><![CDATA[im reading this for english *thumbs up* hahahaha]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.  And if you haven't watched Poitier and Stiger, then go directly to the store and rent it.]]></body>
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