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3.9/5 AbeBooks Publication date 2002 Pages 320 Originally published 2002 Page count 320 Publisher Orion Publishing Group | 3.9/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print ISBN 0-7528-5237-X Genre Detective fiction Country Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ian Rankin books A Good Hanging and Other, Death Is Not the End, The Falls, The Naming of the Dead, Bleeding Hearts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Beggars Banquet is the second collection of short stories by crime writer Ian Rankin, which features 21 stories written between 1991 and 2000 and previously published in crime anthologies and magazines. Seven are Inspector Rebus stories. Rankin says in the Introduction I tend to write short stories in between books, as a way of getting the good Inspector out of my system for a while. Another, A Deep Hole, was originally set in Edinburgh, but was tweaked and set in London for a 1999 volume London Noir.
The story "Herbert in Motion" is concerned with the theft of works of art from the storage facilities of the Tate Gallery by a curator, and their replacement with high quality forgeries to avoid detection of the crime; this also was the theme for the 2008 novel Doors Open.
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