In the Heat of the Night: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Virgil Tibbs series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the In the Heat of the Night audiobook runs 6 hours unabridged, narrated by Dion Graham (about 4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 12 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 6 hours, it runs longer than 55% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Virgil Tibbs
This is book 1. Books 1 to 7 run 41.6 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | In the Heat of the Night | 6 hrs |
| 2 | The Cool Cottontail | 5.7 hrs |
| 3 | Johnny Get Your Gun | 5 hrs |
| 4 | Five Pieces of Jade | 6.1 hrs |
| 5 | The Eyes of Buddha | 6.5 hrs |
| 6 | Then Came Violence | 6.1 hrs |
| 7 | Singapore | 6.3 hrs |
More narrated by Dion Graham
Dion Graham narrates 367 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,275 hours in all.
About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf
418 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
In the Heat of the Night is book 1 of John Ball's Virgil Tibbs series: a 6-hour unabridged recording, read by Dion Graham, released July 21, 2015, on the Classics (Literature) shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Dion Graham
- Released
- July 21, 2015
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Classics (Literature)
- Series
- Virgil Tibbs #1
- ISBN
- 9781501251450
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the In the Heat of the Night audiobook?
In the Heat of the Night runs 6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4 hours.
Is the In the Heat of the Night audiobook free?
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Who narrates In the Heat of the Night?
In the Heat of the Night is narrated by Dion Graham.