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Reviews of the short stories and short story anthologies of Ian Rankin. , 1983-2014.

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Identifier: MS.50578

Scope and Contents

The reviews are from a variety of serial publications and from various countries. They are arranged in two sequences, ‘Short Stories’ and ‘short story anthologies’. Under each sequence the entries are arranged alphabetically by the title of the short stories or short story anthologies; then, under each short story/short story anthology, alphabetically by the title of the serial publication in which the review was published.

Short Stories. Folios 1-10.

Review of ‘Adventures in Babysitting’ from ‘Time Out’, 1995, as a part of the anthology ‘No Alibi: The Best New Crime Fiction’ anthology. Folio 1.

Review of ‘The Game’ in ‘The Scotsman’, 1983, as Rankin’s submission to the Sinclair/Scotsman Short Story Competition. Folios 2-3.

Review of ‘The Serpent's Back’ as a part of the anthology ‘Midwinter Mysteries 5’, from: ‘Edinburgh Evening News’, 1995. Folio 4. ‘Lady’, 1996. Folio 5. ‘Literary Review’, 1995. Folio 6. ‘Yorkshire Post’, 1994. Folio 7.

Review of ‘Someone Got to Eddie’ from ‘Publishers Weekly’, 1994, as a part of the anthology ‘3rd Culprit: An Annual of Crime Stories’. Folio 8.

Review of ‘Tell Me Who To Kill’ from the ‘Daily Mirror’, 2003, as a part of the anthology ‘Mysterious Pleasures’. Folio 9.

Review of an unidentified short story, from ‘Evening Standard’, 2000, as featured in ‘Edinburgh Festival Comic Fringes’, a Radio 4 programme on which Rankin read the story. Folio 10.

Short Story Anthologies. Folios 11- ‘The Beat Goes On’. Lovereading.com, 2014. Folio 11.

‘Beggar’s Banquet’. Folios 12-104. ‘Cambridgeshire Journal’, 2003. Folio ‘Dartford Messenger’, 2002. Folio ‘Deadly Pleasures’, 2003. Folio ‘Disability Times’, 2003. Folio ‘Dover Mercury’, 2002. Folio ‘Dunmow Observer’, 2002. Folio ‘Eastern Daily Press’, 2002. Folio ‘Essex Magazine & Anglian Life’, 2003. Folio ‘Evening Herald’, 2002. Folio ‘Faversham News’, 2002. Folio ‘Good Book Guide’, 2002. Folio ‘Good Book Guide’, March 2003. Folio ‘Good Book Guide’, April 2003. Folio ‘Greenock Telegraph’, 2003. Folio ‘Ham & High’, 2002. Folio ‘Herald’, 2002. Folio ‘Herne Bay Gazette’, 2002. Folio ‘High & I’, 2002. Folio ‘Inverness Courier’, 2002. 2 copies. Folio ‘Irish Times’, 2002. Folio ‘Kent Messenger (Maidstone)’, 2002. Folio ‘Kent Messenger (Malling)’, 2002. Folio ‘Kent Messenger (Tunbridge Wells & Weald)’, 2002. Folio ‘Kentish Express (Ashford)’, 2002. Folio ‘Kentish Express (Folkestone)’, 2002. Folio ‘Kentish Express (Tenterden)’, 2002. Folio ‘Kentish Gazette’, 2002. Folio ‘KM Extra (Medway)’, 2002. ‘KM Extra (Whitstable)’, 2002. ‘Medway Messenger’, 2002. Folio ‘Midweek’, 2002. Folio ‘New Books Magazine’, 2002. Folio ‘Norfolk Journal’, 2003. Folio ‘Northampton Chronicle & Echo’, 2003. Folio ‘Nuneaton Evening Telegraph’, 2002. Folio ‘OK!’, 2002. Folio ‘Oxford Times’, 2002. Folio ‘Saffron Walden Observer’, 2002. Folio ‘Scotland on Sunday’, 2002. Folio ‘Scotsman’, July 2002. ‘Scotsman’, August 2002. ‘Scotsman’, December 2002. ‘Sheerness Times’, 2002. Folio ‘Suffolk Journal’, 2003. Folio ‘Sunday Express’, 2003. Folio ‘Sunday Mercury’, 2002. Folio ‘Sunday Times’, 4 August 2002. ‘Sunday Times’, 11 August 2002. ‘Sunday Times’, 25 August 2002. ‘Sunday Times’, 1 September 2002. ‘Sunday Times’, 12 January 2003. ‘Sunday Times’, 27 April 2003. ‘Sunday Times’, 13 July 2003. ‘Tangled Web’, 2003. Folio ‘Telegraph & Argus’, 2003. Folio ‘Time Out’, 2002. ‘Times’, 2002. ‘Times Literary Supplement’, 2002.

‘A Good Hanging’. Folios 105-116. ‘Bookseller’, 1992. See reviews of ‘Tooth and Nail’. ‘British Book News’, 1992. Folio ‘City Limits’, 1992. Folio ‘Cleveland Plain Dealer’, 2002. Folio ‘Globe and Mail’, 1992. Folio ‘Herald’, 2003. Folio ‘Mystery Scene’, 1992. Folio ‘The Scotsman’, 2003. Folio ‘St. Petersburg Times’, 2002. Folio

‘A Good Hanging’ audiobook. Folios 117-119.

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  • Creation: 1983-2014.

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Extent

119 Leaves

Language of Materials

English

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