''The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Short Stories'' is an anthology of all the

Inspector Rebus The ''Inspector Rebus'' books are a series of detective novels by the Scottish author Sir Ian Rankin. The novels, centred on Detective Inspector John Rebus, are mostly based in and around Edinburgh. They are considered an important contrib ...

short stories (30) by Scottish crime writer

Ian Rankin Sir Ian James Rankin (born 28 April 1960) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels. Early life Rankin was born in Cardenden, Fife. His father, James, owned a grocery shop, and his mother, Isobel, worked in a sch ...

, plus the novella ''Death Is Not the End''; though the Rebus short story ''"Well Shot"'' published in ''2nd Culprit'' (1993) is not included. It is Rankin's third collection of short stories Published in 2014, the paperback version published in 2015 includes two stories not in the hardback edition; a new story ''"Cinders"'' written for Christmas 2014 and an old story from his files ''"My Shopping Day"'' which was first published in ''"Herbert in Motion and Other Stories"'' (1997). The first story ''"Dead and Buried"'' is set in the mid-1980s when Rebus was ''learning the ropes'' at Summerhall Police Station, and ''"The Very Last Drop"'' is set during a tour of a brewery immediately after Rebus’s retirement in ''

Exit Music ''Exit Music'' is the seventeenth crime novel in the internationally bestselling Inspector Rebus series, written by Ian Rankin. It was published on 6 September 2007. The book is named after the Radiohead song " Exit Music (For a Film)". Plo ...

'', a retirement present from

Siobhan Clarke This is a list of characters from the ''Inspector Rebus'' series of detective novels by the Scottish writer Ian Rankin. They are all fictional characters that have appeared in more than one novel in the series. A number of the characters appe ...

who goes with him (written to be read aloud at a charity night at Edinburgh’s Caledonian Brewery). ''"The Very Last Drop"'' was written to help the work of Royal Blind. All the twelve Rebus stories in ''

A Good Hanging and Other Stories ''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 Edinburgh ( ; ...

'' are included: they cover a chronological year in Rebus’s life; ''"Playback"'' in March, ''"A Good Hanging"'' in August during the Festival Fringe and ''"Auld Lang Syne"'' in December.''Preface'', page 1 Also included are the seven Rebus stories in '' Beggars Banquet'' which has fourteen other stories, 21 in total. There are six uncollected stories from magazines and newspapers, often for a Christmas issue so set in the festive season. There are two new stories, ''"The Passenger"'' and ''"A Three-Pint Problem"''. In the ''Preface'' (page 1) and ''Rankin on Rebus'' (pages 595-609) Rankin discusses Rebus and writing him. ''Further Copyright Information'' (pages 610-611) gives the year of first publication as shown below and where published. Up till about 1997 they are ©Ian Rankin, then they are ©John Rebus Limited. In the notes ''AGH'' indicates that the story was first published in ''

'' in 1992. ''BB'' indicates that the story was included in '' Beggars Banquet'' (2002), but these stories had been previously published elsewhere in magazines or newspapers. Featured Short Stories:

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