- Fiction, Police, Inspector Rebus (Fictitious character), Narcotic addicts
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Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Ian Rankin
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 267
- Publisher
- Unknown, Brilliance Audio, Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781407226972
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First sentence
“'Hide!' He was shrieking now, frantic, his face drained of all colour.”
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