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John Dudley Ball Jr. (July 8, 1911 – October 15, 1988) [1] was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 novel In the Heat of the Night , which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an ...
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Bradley's cause of death is undetermined, [244] as the autopsy could not reveal what he died from, so his death remains a mystery. The Peter Bergmann case is an unsolved mystery pertaining to the death of an unidentified man in County Sligo , Ireland, whose naked body was found on a beach; the autopsy found no signs of drowning or foul play and ...
In the Heat of the Night is a 1965 mystery novel by John Ball set in the community of Wells, South Carolina. The main character is a black police detective named Virgil Tibbs passing through the small town during a time of bigotry and the civil rights movement .
John Ball (16th-century MP) (c.1518–1556), English Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich John Ball (assemblyman) (1756–1838), American soldier and politician John Thomas Ball (1815–1898), Irish barrister and politician, MP for Dublin University 1868–1875
John Ball (c. 1338 [1] – 15 July 1381) was an English priest who took a prominent part in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. [2] Although he is often associated with John Wycliffe and the Lollard movement , Ball was actively preaching "articles contrary to the faith of the church" at least a decade before Wycliffe started attracting attention.
John Thomas Ball (born May 10, 1990) is an American Christian musician and guitarist, who plays alternative rock, folk rock, indie folk and indie rock music. He has released three extended plays , Found Among the Broken (2010), John Ball (2013), and By Declaration & the Death (2016).
A Dream of John Ball is a novel by English author William Morris about the Great Revolt of 1381, conventionally called "the Peasants' Revolt". It features the rebel priest John Ball, who was accused of being a Lollard. He is famed for his question "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?" [1]