Ian Rankin and Inspector Rebus: The Story of the Best-Selling Author and His Complex Detective - Hardcover

Cabell, Craig

 
9781844548668: Ian Rankin and Inspector Rebus: The Story of the Best-Selling Author and His Complex Detective
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 184454866X ISBN 13: 9781844548668
Verlag: John Blake Publishing Ltd, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Detective John Rebus first appeared in Ian Rankin's 1987 bestseller Knots and Crosses and has since gone on to appear in 17 books and numerous short stories. For more than 20 years these critically acclaimed novels have delighted readers and set a benchmark in contemporary crime fiction. These notoriously gritty stories have been adapted into a television series?the public cannot get enough of this hard-drinking, no-nonsense, complex detective. Although the fictional Inspector retired to the backwaters of Edinburgh's dark side in the 2007 novel Exit Music, the books endure. Here, Craig Cabell draws from his extensive interviews with Ian Rankin to explore both the writer and his creation, and how their relationship has developed over the years. He also investigates the dark cellars and sinister back streets of Rebus' Edinburgh?a dark, foreboding city that shatters any stereotypes of shortbread and kilts. Learn about the unusual connection between Rankin and Rebus, how the author was a punk musician and swineherd before becoming a writer, and why he was so inspired by fellow Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and his masterpiece The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Craig Cabell is the author of Dennis Wheatley: Churchill's Storyteller, Ian Fleming's Secret War, and Snipers: Profiles of the World's Deadliest Killers.

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Verlag
John Blake Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
184454866X
ISBN 13 
9781844548668
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Anzahl der Seiten
264
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