![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While the villains Inspector Rebus faces are certainly every bit as evil as Stevenson’s Mr. But eventually this characterization prompted him to have a closer look at the work of other mystery writers, and he found that the form suited his purposes just fine that in fact he “could say everything wanted to say about the world, and still give readers a pacy, gripping narrative.”īearing in mind the original duality of Jekyll and Hyde, however, Rankin’s tales are not dominated by a contrast painted in black and white. Oblivious to the mere existence of such a thing as the mystery genre – or so Rankin says – he was stunned to soon hear his book described first and foremost as a crime novel. Hyde” for modern times, Ian Rankin writes about his first Inspector Rebus novel, “Knots and Crosses” in the introduction to the compilation “Rebus: The Early Years”, which contains the first three installments of the series. He had wanted to update Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Dr. Twisted minds and the dark secrets of Edinburgh’s other side. ![]()
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