A Good Hanging Short Stories

by Rankin, Ian

• ISBN13: 9780312280277
• ISBN10: 0312280270
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-12
• Publisher: Minotaur Books

Summary

Twelve remarkable, gritty stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus in his home city of Edinburgh, as only Ian Rankin can portray it: not just the tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban metropolis with a full range of criminals and their victims--blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It's a city like any other, a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accidents, and long-hidden jealousy, and a city in which criminal minds find it all too easy to fade into the shadows. As dedicated readers of the series well know, nobody is better equipped to delve into Edinburgh's back alleys and smoky pubs than Rebus, and no one better able to illuminate his world than Ian Rankin.

Author Biography

Born in Scotland in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh and has since been employed as a grape picker, swineherd, taxman, alcohol researcher, hi-fi journalist, and punk musician.

Since publishing his first Rebus novel, Knots and Crosses, in 1987, the series has become phenomenally successful, with each new installment a runaway bestseller in the United Kingdom. Ian has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. Black & Blue won the Crime Writers Association's Gold Dagger Award for best novel of the year in 1997.

He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons.

Table of Contents

Playback	1	(22)
The Dean Curse	23	(26)
Being Frank	49	(14)
Concrete Evidence	63	(24)
Seeing Things	87	(22)
A Good Hanging	109	(28)
Tit for Tat	137	(20)
Not Provan	157	(18)
Sunday	175	(14)
Auld Lang Syne	189	(16)
The Gentlemen's Club	205	(20)
Monstrous Trumpet	225