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Country Scotland Publication date 1992 Pages 304 pages Originally published 1992 Preceded by Tooth & Nail Genre Detective fiction | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print ISBN 1-85797-016-0 Followed by The Black Book Publisher Orion Publishing Group | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Inspector rebus season 3 episode 3 strip jack
Strip Jack is a 1992 crime novel by Ian Rankin. It is the fourth of the Inspector Rebus novels.
Contents
- Inspector rebus season 3 episode 3 strip jack
- Plot summary
- Connections to other Rankin books
- Writing Strip Jack
- References
The title refers to the popular card game "Strip Jack Naked".
Plot summary
A police raid on an Edinburgh brothel captures (seemingly by accident) popular young local MP Gregor Jack. When Jack's fiery wife Elizabeth disappears, and two bodies are found, suspicion falls on a famous local actor Rab Kinnoul. Detective Inspector John Rebus is sympathetic to the MP's problems, and interviews a member of the Jacks' social circle, Andrew MacMillan, who is locked up in a psychiatric hospital after murdering his wife many years before. It becomes increasingly evident that somebody has 'set up' Jack, with the intention of stripping him of his good name, political standing and maybe even his life.
Connections to other Rankin books
Writing Strip Jack
In the foreword to Rebus: The St Leonard Years, Rankin says that with this book, he decided to move Rebus out of a "fictional" Edinburgh and more into the real one. The book has a background subplot of the (fictional) Greater London Road police station about to be closed down and staff moved to (real) stations like St Leonards.