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A Good Hanging and Other Stories
First edition
AuthorIan Rankin
LanguageEnglish
SeriesInspector Rebus
GenreDetective fiction
Published1992 (Century)
Publication placeScotland
Media typePrint
Pages253
ISBN0-7126-5148-9

A Good Hanging and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by crime writer Ian Rankin.

The collection features Ian Rankin's popular Detective Inspector Rebus. The collection is of 12 short stories set in Edinburgh, where Ian Rankin sets almost all of his novels.

These twelve Rebus stories cover a chronological year in his life; "Playback" in March, "A Good Hanging" in August during the Festival Fringe and "Auld Lang Syne" in December.

The Short Stories:

Playback
The Dean Curse
Being Frank
Concrete Evidence
Seeing Things
A Good Hanging
Tit For Tat
Not Provan
Sunday
Auld Lang Syne
The Gentlemen's Club
Monstrous Trumpet

References

  1. The Beat Goes On "Preface", page 1
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