Rebus will retire
Listening to Ian Rankin on the, um, eccentric Storyman on Radio 4 reminds me that there are just two Inspector Rebus novels to go. (You can still listen to the archived programme, not the best in the series.) I think he mentioned this at a reading in London a couple of years ago, but his performance at that event was a little disheartening thus I’ve erased it from my memory.
Edinburgh graduates will recognise the building above as St. Leonards police station, home of Rebus until the CID relocated recently. On the plus side there’s a new TV series in the can, this time starring Ken Stott rather than the pretty John Hannah. That’s Stott on the right, appearing twenty years ago alongside Taggart, the other great Scottish detective. The more I think about it the more I feel that Rebus might look like Gordon Brown.
Wikipedia claims that ‘The Inspector Rebus series is extremely popular, accounting for 10% of all crime book sales in the UK.’ If true, that is an astonishing success.
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