Publication Listing for How I Write: The Secret Lives of Authors". isfdb.org. Internet Speculative Fiction Database . Retrieved 12 January 2013. a b "The CWA Short Story Dagger". Crime Writers Association. 5 July 2012. Archived from the original on 19 January 2013 . Retrieved 7 January 2013. A Three-Pint Problem" (2014) (Rebus; published in the UK and US editions of The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories)

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Dan Crowe, ed. (2013). Dead Interviews: Living Writers Meet Dead Icons. Granta, London. pp. 143–153. ISBN 978-1-84708-827-7. My Shopping Day" (1997) (Rebus; published in Herbert in Motion & Other Stories [limited edition chapbook of 200 copies]; not included in the UK edition of The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories, but included in the U.S. edition) MacDonald, Erin E., Ian Rankin: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2020). In 2009 Rankin stated on Radio Five Live that he would start work on a five- or six-issue run on the comic book Hellblazer, although he may turn the story into a stand-alone graphic novel instead. The Vertigo Comics panel at WonderCon 2009 confirmed that the story would be published as a graphic novel, Dark Entries, the second release from the company's Vertigo Crime imprint. [12] [13] [14] Oxford Bar" (2007) (Essay published in the anthology How I Write: The Secret Lives of Authors) [61]

Other aspects of the novel are better, including the personal demons affecting those who knew Flip.

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Rankin is the singer in the six-piece band Best Picture, formed by journalists Kenny Farquharson ( The Times) and Euan McColl ( The Scotsman) in 2017, and featuring Bobby Bluebell on guitar. [24] They released the single "Isabelle" on Oriel Records in October 2017. [25] They made their live debut at the Kendal Calling music festival on 28 July 2018. [26] Personal life [ edit ] This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Williams-Akoto, Tessa (5 October 2005). "My Home: Ian Rankin, crime writer". The Independent . Retrieved 29 November 2019.The CWA Gold Dagger". Crime Writers Association. 5 July 2012. Archived from the original on 14 January 2012 . Retrieved 8 January 2013. Bourke, Kevin (16 October 2020). "Ian Rankin: accidental crime". Big Issue North . Retrieved 28 February 2021. Rankin masterfully pulls his fascinating plot together, and his sense of place casts a powerful shadow on this subtle tale of the recurrence of evil." - Maxim Jakubowski, The Guardian Rankin was clearly straining here, and he did not come up with anything that is anywhere close to inspired (but at least Rebus does learn the meaning of the word 'existentialism' -- though it's hard to believe he had never come across it before).

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There are a few things that might be clues: a crudely made miniature coffin found in the area (not the first of its kind, it turns out), as well as an online quiz-game Flip was apparently playing. The Inspector Rebus series is now considered major contributors of the Tartan Noir genre; crime fiction rooted in the Scottish tradition. In 2009, Ian Rankin donated his short story “Fieldwork” to the Ox-Tales project, which features four collections of UK stories. In 2009 Rankin wrote Dark Entries, a graphic novel, in which a man struggles to escape a reality television show for Hell. The Inspector Rebus Series Atonement" (2005) (Rebus; written for the anthology Complete Short Stories, which combined the contents of A Good Hanging & Other Stories and Beggar's Banquet, but was far from "Complete")THES Editorial (26 November 1999). "Glittering Prizes". The Times Higher Education Supplement . Retrieved 7 January 2013. The Travelling Companion" (2015) (novella, published by the Mysterious Bookshop, NYC; signed, lettered limited cloth edition of 26 copies and 100 numbered copies; softcover edition of 1,000 copies; published in the UK in 2016 by Head of Zeus Ltd, London) John Rebus is one of the most enduring characters in crime fiction, first appearing in Knots & Crosses in 1987.