This book is a collection of 31 short stories about detective John Rebus. This publication was produced in 2014. This is my first reading of this Scottish crime writer, Ian Rankin. However, I'm quite impressed with his command of the language and his turn of phrase. I listened to this book and enjoyed the voice of James MacPherson. His accent added much to these Scottish tales. These stories go from problem to solution without much suspense.
This seems to be a collection. It includes all twelve Rebus stories from A GOOD HANGING AND OTHER STORIES (published in 1992), including Playback, Being Frank, Concrete Evidence, Seeing Things, A Good Hanging, Tit for Tat, Not Proven, Sunday, Auld Lang Syne, The Gentlemen's Club, and Monstrous Trumpet.
There are eight short stories from BEGGARS BANQUET (published in 2002). This includes Talk Show, Trip Trap, Castle Dangerous, In the Frame, Facing the Music, Window of Opportunity, Death Is Not the End, and No Sanity Clause.
There are six uncollected stories from magazines and newspapers, often for a Christmas issue so set in the festive season. There are two new stories, The Passenger and A Three-Pint Problem. Included is a new story Cinders which was written for Christmas 2014 and an old story from his files My Shopping Day, which was first published in HERBERT IN MOTION AND OTHER STORIES (1997).
This seems to be a collection. It includes all twelve Rebus stories from A GOOD HANGING AND OTHER STORIES (published in 1992), including Playback, Being Frank, Concrete Evidence, Seeing Things, A Good Hanging, Tit for Tat, Not Proven, Sunday, Auld Lang Syne, The Gentlemen's Club, and Monstrous Trumpet.
There are eight short stories from BEGGARS BANQUET (published in 2002). This includes Talk Show, Trip Trap, Castle Dangerous, In the Frame, Facing the Music, Window of Opportunity, Death Is Not the End, and No Sanity Clause.
There are six uncollected stories from magazines and newspapers, often for a Christmas issue so set in the festive season. There are two new stories, The Passenger and A Three-Pint Problem. Included is a new story Cinders which was written for Christmas 2014 and an old story from his files My Shopping Day, which was first published in HERBERT IN MOTION AND OTHER STORIES (1997).
