- Inspector Rebus (Fictitious character), Police, Fiction, Large type books
Edinburgh policeman, John Rebus, must solve murders involving seeming crank letters. He is not the only officer workering the case, but the only one who has all the pieces to resolve it.
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Classical in form, earnest, cool and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Ian Rankin
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 253
- Publisher
- Chivers Audio Books, Orion Books Limited, St. Martin's Minotaur
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9780312955663
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