![]() Many of the annotations comment on ways in which Rebus's character differs from his later incarnations: 'Rebus is much more bookish/literate in the early novels. "public probity & private vice"'), the fictionalised Edinburgh setting, the accidental parallels with Trainspotting, and the sources and inspirations for specific details. ![]() ![]() Rankin's attentive annotations touch on the jacket design, the writing of the book 'in my little flat in Tottenham, while I worked as a hi-fi journalist', the book's echoes of Jekyll and Hyde ('pretty much the overarching theme of the early Rebus novels. Hide & Seek is the second of Rankin's classic series of Inspector Rebus crime novels: in it, Rebus investigates the death of a junkie, ultimately connecting it with a society scandal and with the double nature of Edinburgh itself. ![]() London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1991.įirst edition, signed on the title and annotated with 766 words on 69 pages. ![]()
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