John Ball

	John Ball John Dudley Ball, Jr. [1911-1988]

	Virgil Tibbs, a black homicide detective based in Pasadena, California:
	In the Heat of the Night (1965) The Cool Cottontail (1966) Johnny Get Your Gun (1969) APA: Death for a Playmate (rev’d ed. 1972) Five Pieces of Jade (1972)	The Eyes of Buddha (1976) Then Came Violence (1980) Singapore (1986)

	Jack Tallon, a Los Angeles police sergeant who becomes police chief in Whitewater, Washington:
	Police Chief (1977) Trouble for Tallon (1981)	Chief Tallon and the S.O.R. (1984)

	Non-series:
	The First Team (1971) Mark One: The Dummy (1974) The Killing in the Market (1978) [with Bevan Smith]	The Murder Children (1979) The Kiwi Target (1989) The Van (1989)