9780708908709 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, June 1, 1982), cover price $29.99 |
About this edition: Virgil Tibbs, the cool, highly-competent black detective of the Pasedena Police Department, returns one day to his bachelor apartment to find that it has been expertly stripped to the bare wallsânot a thing remains to show that he has ever lived there.
9780385157261 | Doubleday, April 1, 1980, cover price $8.95 |
About this edition: Virgil Tibbs returns home from vacation to a plum assignment as bodyguard to a beautiful African first lady who has been sent to California for safekeeping and who is quickly taken hostage