Inspector Rebus · Book 5
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.
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