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In his introduction to Rebus: The Early Years, Ian Rankin explains that part of the original inspiration for Rebus had to do with wanting to retell Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic horror story Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, with Rebus as Jekyll threatened by his evil alter ego from the past. The Jekyll and Hyde theme is explicit in ...
The action of The Complaints takes place on February 3-24, 2009, with the days specified by the book's sections. Dividing a larger number of chapters into groupings under the date and day of the week is a practice Rankin used in the two previous Rebus novels, The Naming of the Dead (July 1-9, 2005, the week of the real-life G8 Summit in Edinburgh) and Exit Music (November 15-27, 2006, roughly ...
Rankin used the point of view of the criminals being pursued by Rebus effectively in early novels like Knots and Crosses and Tooth and Nail but seems to have dropped this device. In some of the later novels, Rebus's nemesis, the gangster 'Big Ger' Cafferty, is a point of view character; often the glimpse of his thoughts allows the reader to ...
Detective Inspector John Rebus is the protagonist in the Inspector Rebus series. He was born in 1947 in Fife and left school at the age of fifteen to join the Army.After serving in Northern Ireland he applied to undergo selection for the SAS, but after a horrendous ordeal in training, left the army and joined the Lothian and Borders Police.
In the Exile on Princes Street foreword to Rebus: The Early Years, Rankin says this was his second attempt at updating Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde into then-modern Edinburgh ("one reviewer 'got it'"), and with this book he began to like Rebus as a character and thought he could use him as a recurring mouthpiece for stories about his views on Scotland.
Meanwhile, Siobhan is out getting extra camera film for the Operation Moneybags surveillance, and walks past the Heartbreak Cafe. Smelling gas, she enters and discovers Eddie Ringan's body with the head inside the oven, an apparent suicide. Dr Curt's examination of Eddie's badly burned body turns up some suspicious findings.
Not only that, this was a family affair: Ice-T brought along his son, Tracy Jr., 30, for some photo ops. "Check out @RaisingCanes Iced Tea is Ice-T approved," the "Caniac ambassador" wrote, posing ...
According to Ian Rankin, the punch line is as follows: "For Hans that does dishes can be as soft as Gervase with mild, green, hairy-lipped squid." [citation needed] The punch line is a reference to the long-running advertising slogan of Fairy Liquid. ("Now hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid.")