A Good Hanging and Other Stories

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

A Good Hanging and Other Stories
First edition
Author	Ian Rankin
Country	Scotland
Language	English
Series	Inspector Rebus
Genre	Detective fiction
Published	1992 (Century)
Media type	Print
Pages	253
ISBN	0-7126-5148-9

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

The Beat Goes on Preface, page 1

Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series
Novels	Knots and Crosses Hide and Seek Tooth and Nail Strip Jack The Black Book Mortal Causes Let it Bleed Black & Blue The Hanging Garden Dead Souls Set in Darkness The Falls Resurrection Men A Question of Blood Fleshmarket Close The Naming of the Dead Exit Music Standing in Another Man's Grave Saints of the Shadow Bible Even Dogs in the Wild Rather Be the Devil In a House of Lies
Characters	John Rebus
Television	Rebus "The Black Book" "A Question of Blood" "Strip Jack" "Let It Bleed" "Resurrection Men" "The First Stone" "The Naming of the Dead" "Knots and Crosses"
Stage	Long Shadows

Works by Ian Rankin
Novels	The Flood (1986) Knots and Crosses (1987) Watchman (1988) Westwind (1990) Hide and Seek (1991) Tooth and Nail (1992) Strip Jack (1992) The Black Book (1993) Witch Hunt (1993) Mortal Causes (1994) Bleeding Hearts (1994) Let It Bleed (1995) Blood Hunt (1995) Black & Blue (1997) The Hanging Garden (1998) Dead Souls (1999) Set in Darkness (2000) The Falls (2001) Resurrection Men (2002) A Question of Blood (2003) Fleshmarket Close (2004) The Naming of the Dead (2006) Exit Music (2007) Doors Open (2008) A Cool Head (2009, Quick Reads) The Complaints (2009) The Impossible Dead (2011) Standing in Another Man's Grave (2012) Saints of the Shadow Bible (2013) Even Dogs In The Wild (2015) Rather Be the Devil (2016) In a House of Lies (2018)
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)
Related articles	Inspector Rebus

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