A Good Hanging and Other Stories

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A Good Hanging and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by crime writer Ian Rankin.

The collection features Ian Rankin's popular Detective Inspector Rebus. The collection is of 12 short stories set in Edinburgh, where Ian Rankin sets almost all of his novels.

These twelve Rebus stories cover a chronological year in his life; "Playback" in March, "A Good Hanging" in August during the Festival Fringe and "Auld Lang Syne" in December.[1]

The Short Stories:

Playback
The Dean Curse
Being Frank
Concrete Evidence
Seeing Things
A Good Hanging
Tit For Tat
Not Provan
Sunday
Auld Lang Syne
The Gentlemen's Club
Monstrous Trumpet

References

  1. ^ The Beat Goes On "Preface", page 1
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Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series
Novels
Short story collections
  • A Good Hanging and Other Stories
  • The Beat Goes On
CharactersTelevision
  • Rebus (2000–07)
    • "A Question of Blood"
    • "Strip Jack"
    • "Let It Bleed"
    • "Resurrection Men"
    • "The First Stone"
    • "The Naming of the Dead"
    • "Knots and Crosses"
  • Rebus (2024–present)
Stage
  • Long Shadows
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Works by Ian Rankin
Novels
Short story collections
  • A Good Hanging and Other Stories (1992)
  • Beggars Banquet (2002)
  • The Beat Goes On (2014)
Plays
  • Dark Road (2013)
  • Long Shadows (2018)
Short stories
  • Death is Not the End (1998)
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