A Good Hanging and Other Stories
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 263
- ISBN-13
- 9781407229645
- Type
- collection
About this book
A Good Hanging and Other Stories (1992) is a collection of early Rebus short fiction that sits alongside the numbered novels rather than within the main sequence -- Rankin himself frames it, like its later companion The Beat Goes On, as an optional extra for readers already invested in the character rather than a starting point. It runs 263 pages and falls between Strip Jack and The Black Book chronologically.
Key facts about A Good Hanging and Other Stories
A Good Hanging and Other Stories is a collection by Ian Rankin. Readers have had it since 1992. It runs to 263 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of A Good Hanging and Other Stories. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781407229645 to find the main one.
A Good Hanging and Other Stories is book 5 of 27 in the Inspector Rebus series. The series has 27 published books. However, the series starts with Knots and Crosses (1987). Midnight and Blue is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 10 October 2024.
Additionally, Ian Rankin writes Jack Laidlaw and Malcolm Fox as separate series. Those series sit on our crime fiction and police procedural shelves. Meanwhile, The Heights is the latest published Ian Rankin book on file, from 8 October 2026.
About Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin is a Scottish crime writer whose Inspector John Rebus series has become one of the defining bodies of work in modern British crime fiction, and whose Edinburgh setting -- rendered in unglamorous, atmospheric detail -- is as much a character in the books as Rebus himself. See every Ian Rankin book in order.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
A Good Hanging and Other Stories is book 5 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows Strip Jack. It is followed by The Black Book. See the full Inspector Rebus reading order.
John Rebus is a Detective Inspector with Edinburgh CID: a hard-drinking, rule-bending insomniac who solves cases as much through stubbornness and an instinct for the city's underside as through procedure. Ian Rankin builds each novel around a real strand of Edinburgh life — the tourist Old Town sitting on top of a much darker New Town of gangsters, corrupt councillors and old sectarian grudges — and lets Rebus's insubordination with his superiors (and his complicated, decades-long feud-turned-uneasy-alliance with…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781407229645