{"id":10877,"date":"2018-05-23T10:29:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T14:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=10877"},"modified":"2024-01-30T19:52:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T00:52:29","slug":"the-beat-goes-on-the-complete-rebus-stories-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/10877","title":{"rendered":"The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories<\/a><\/em> (2015) Ian Rankin<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is a collection of all the Inspector Rebus short stories.<\/p>\n

\u2018Dead and Buried\u2019 (2013)
\n\u2018Playback,\u2019 \u2018The Dean Curse,\u2019 \u2018Being Frank,\u2019 \u2018Concrete Evidence,\u2019 \u2018Seeing Things,\u2019 \u2018A Good Hanging,\u2019 \u2018Tit for Tat,\u2019 \u2018Not Provan,\u2019 \u2018Sunday,\u2019 \u2018Auld Lang Syne,\u2019 \u2018The Gentleman\u2019s Club,\u2019 \u2018Monstrous Trumpet\u2019 from A Good Hanging<\/em> (And Other Short Stories, Featuring Inspector Rebus) (2002)
\n\u2018My Shopping Day\u2019 (1997) Herbert in Motion and Other Stories in Great Britain
\n\u2018Facing the Music\u2019 (1992) Beggar\u2019s Banquet
\n\u2018Trip Trap\u2019 (1992) 1st Culprit by Chatto & Windus
\n\u2018Talk Show\u2019 (1991) Winter\u2019s Crimes 23
\n\u2018Castle Dangerous\u2019 (1993) Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, October 1993
\n\u2018In the Frame\u2019 (1992) Winter\u2019s Crimes 24
\n\u2018Window of Opportunity\u2019 (1995) Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, December 1995
\n\u2018No Sanity Clause\u2019 (2000) Daily Telegraph, December 2000
\n\u2018Death Is Not the End\u2019 (1998)
\n\u2018Tell Me Who to Kill\u2019 (2003) Mysterious Pleasures
\n\u2018Saint Nicked\u2019 (2002) Radio Times
\n\u2018Atonement\u2019 (2005)
\n\u2018Not Just Another Saturday\u2019 (2005)
\n\u2018Penalty Claus\u2019 (2010) Mail on Sunday
\n\u2018The Passenger\u2019 (2014)
\n\u2018A Three-Pint Problem\u2019 (2014)
\n\u2018The Very Last Drop\u2019 (2010) (written to help the work of Royal Blind)
\n\u2018Cinders\u2019 (2014) Mail on Sunday <\/p>\n

I was at a loss as to what I wanted to read, and since I’ve been loaning the Ian Rankin mysteries to a friend, I thought I’d jump back into them myself, with this mystery collection.<\/p>\n

One of the reasons I love the Rebus stories is that Rebus himself is so damned complicated.<\/p>\n

He parked in front of the tenement, guided by a uniformed officer who had recognised the badly dented front bumper of Rebus\u2019s car. It was rumoured that the dent had come from knocking down too many old ladies, and who was Rebus to deny it? It was the stuff of legend and it gave him prominence in the fearful eyes of the younger recruits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(H)ow did you make safe a man like that? The Army had designed a weapon and that weapon had become misadjusted, its sights all wrong. You could dismantle a weapon. You could dismantle a man, too, come to that. But each and every piece was still as lethal as the whole.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A dangerous book, the Bible. It could be made to say anything, its meaning in the mind of the beholder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He had half a dozen tickets lying around, any one of which could be his fortune. He quite liked the notion that he might have won a million and not know it; preferred it, in fact, to the idea of actually having the million in his bank account. What would he do with a million pounds? Same as he\u2019d do with fifty thou\u2013 self-destruct. <\/p>\n

Only faster.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I still can’t manage to re-read the first book, but I might try jumping back in at book three or so and go from there.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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