In the Heat of the Night by John Dudley Ball

A Killing in the Market, Doubleday and Company, 1978.Phase Three Alert Little, Brown & Company ISBN 0316079375, 1977.The Fourteenth Point, Little, Brown and Company, ISBN 9-9, 1973.The First Team, Little, Brown and Company ISBN 7-2, 1971.Miss One Thousand Spring Blossoms, 1968.Arctic Showdown: an Alaskan Adventure, 1966.Judo Boy Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1964.Operation Springboard (aka Operation Space) Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1958.short story published in Murder California Style (ed.'Virgil Tibbs and the Fallen Body' Sep 1978.'Virgil Tibbs and the Cocktail Napkin' Apr 1977.short stories published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine:.The Eyes of Buddha, Little, Brown, 1976.Republished as Death for a Playmate, Bantam 1972.Johnny Get Your Gun, Little, Brown, 1969 ISBN 0316079456.The Cool Cottontail, Harper & Row Publishers, 1966.In the Heat of the Night, Harper & Row Publishers, 1965.He was listed in the 'Who's Who in Magic' in the May 1933 issue of The Sphinx: An Independent Magazine for Magicians published from March 1902 through March 1953) and contributed an article called 'Further Ideas' to The Sphinx in 1937. While in college he performed as a semi-professional magician under the name 'Jacques Morintell' and 'Howduzi'. He died in 1988 and was buried at the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. The second story is shared by an aviation buff who is given his chance to increase his flying skills by the airline that has been built by the pilot of the first story.

The first involves a group of travelers in a troubled Third World country, waiting for the last plane out, which they hope will carry them to safety. He was invested in the BSI in 1960 as 'The Oxford Flier.'īall's Last Plane Out consists of two stories which share characters and then meld together. He was a member of the exclusive The Baker Street Irregulars, a society of ardent Sherlock Holmes fans. Ball lived in Encino, California, and died there in 1988. In the mid-1980s, he was the book review columnist for Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine.

For a time he worked as a part-time reserve deputy for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office, was trained in martial arts, and was a nudist.

He wrote for a number of magazines and newspapers, including the Brooklyn Eagle. ( September 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)īall was born in Schenectady, New York, grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and attended Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.

In the Heat of the Night by John Dudley Ball