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Ian Rankin
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Publisher | Orion | ||
ISBN | 0752868098 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
Eleven Inspector Rebus mysteries, including the hanging of a student during the Festival, an arson attack on a bird watcher, and the apparent witnessing of a miracle...If you're the kind of traveller who likes to step off the tourist trail this is the book for you.
Ian Rankin 2006 by Victoria Warren
Review
A GOOD HANGING is one of twelve stories in this book and on the CD. The main story being a Good Hanging which is set in and around the Edinburgh festival time. The story goes that in days gone by that a criminal was given the chance of freedom by running the distance of the Royal Mile from Parliament Square to Hollyrood, with a baying crowd on their heels. If the criminal reaches the Royal Park before he is caught then he could remain in the park to live out his life. But this was not an authorised hanging, this is a prank that seems to have gone wrong, a fringe artist that didn't mean to do what he has to do.
The other stories are all short but still have a good twist in them. I love these stories and found that yet again these stories are short but still have the thrill of the long crime novels that Rebus plays a part in.
This is another great book by one of Britain's finest detective novelist.His home cityof Edinburgh is not just tarten tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourists brochures, but a modern urban with the full range ofcriminals and their victims - blackmailers, peeping toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It is a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accident and long hidden jealousy.
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