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The naming of the dead
When an international delegate falls to his death during a dinner at Edinburgh Castle, Inspector John Rebus is given what looks like a simple suicide to write up. Even as he keeps it out of the headlines, Rebus probes where no probing is wanted. Rebus also investigates the grisly murder of a recently paroled rapist.
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Dickens, Bleak House, and Crime Writing
What kind of a book is Bleak House? [Responding to the point that Bucket the detective isn't the central character in what is essentially a mystery-detective novel] Well - who is at the heart of it? [Editor's note: compare these comments about a 'muse' with Dickens's description in a letter to Forster (?October 1841) of his own experience: 'when, in the midst of this trouble and pain, I sit down to my book, some beneficent power shows it all to me, and tempts me to be interested, and I don't invent it - really do not but see it, and write it down.' ] [...]I've always got to make sure as a novelist that I'm putting his view across and not my view. Because we're very different politically, very different in terms of our upbringing and our lives.
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Resurrection men
Packed off to the remote Scottish Police College for a lesson in teamwork -- after hurling a mug in his supervisor's face -- Inspector John Rebus finds himself in a snake pit. Rebus must work undercover on a drug heist that involves his classmates, known as the Resurrection Men.
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Tim Marlow meets. Series 2, programme 3, Ian Rankin
Tim Marlow meets crime writer Ian Rankin at the National Galleries of Scotland in his hometown of Edinburgh. Most famous for his award-winning Inspector Rebus novels, Rankin talks openly about his life and career through his chosen works. These include a Francis Bacon piece and work from Scottish artists Eduardo Paolozzi and Douglas Gordon.
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The falls
After a young student's strange disappearance, Inspector John Rebus gets a lead in the shape of a carved wooden doll in an eight-inch coffin (found in the student's home village) and an Internet-based role-playing game.
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