Singapore

Name: Singapore
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: John Ball
ISBN: 9781501251696

Author: John Ball

Series: Virgil Tibbs #7

Narrator: Dion Graham

Unabridged: 6 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 10/06/2015

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Classic

Synopsis

When Madame Motamboru, widow of the assassinated President of Bakara, is framed for murder in Singapore, she requests that her old friend Virgil Tibbs take part in the investigation. Because of U.S. interests in the area, Tibbs is cleared for passage.Upon arrival, Tibbs finds that the police there are convinced of Madame Motamboru's guilt. All the evidence says that only she could have shot the man who visited her hotel suite. It's up to Tibbs to save her from hanging by uncovering the truth and outwitting the sinister organization that wants her dead.And when Tibbs gets involved in another more bizarre murder case, it will take all of his legendary intelligence and cool-headed savvy to find the answers to two deadly and, apparently, unsolvable puzzles.

About John Ball

John Ball 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 Oscar-winning film of the same name.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Robert on August 11, 2019

Mr Tibbs outside his Southern California comfort zone for the first time since his debut, confronts a pair of locked-room mysteries in what turned out to be his swansong.......more

Goodreads review by Maddy on November 14, 2021

PROTAGONIST: Detective Virgil Tibbs SETTING: Singapore RATING: 4.25 WHY: At one time, police detective Virgil Tibbs served as a bodyguard for Madame Miriam Motamburo of Bakara, Africa. Her husband has been killed, and she has been transported to Singapore under suspicious circumstances. When a man is k......more

Goodreads review by Ed on August 07, 2012

#7 in the Virgil Tibbs series. A fast read in which credulity is stretched to the limit at a U.S. detective solving crimes in Singapore. Miriam Motamboru, wife of an African leader, posed as Virgil Tibbs'(Pasadena homicide detective) wife in Then Came Violence (1980) while she was being given politic......more