Fleshmarket Close is a 2004 novelA novel (from French nouvelle Italian "novella", "new") is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. Until the eighteenth century, the word referred specifically to short fictions of love and intrigue as opposed to romances, which were epic-length works about love and adventure. Literary theory of genres has not yet managed to isolate a "single definite, stable characteristic of the novel" that holds without reservations.Bakhtin 1981, pp.8-9 During ...novel by Ian RankinIan Rankin OBE, DL. (born April 28 1960, in Cardenden, Fife, Scotland) is one of the best-selling crime writers in the United Kingdom. His best known books are the Inspector Rebus novels.Ian Rankin, and is named after a real close on Edinburgh'sEdinburgh ( pronounced ; ) is the capital of Scotland and its second largest city. Edinburgh is 45 miles away from Glasgow, 15 from Livingston and 100 miles from Carlisle and Aberdeen. It is in the south-east of Scotland, on the east coast of Scotland's "Central Belt", on the south shore of the Firth of Forth, on the North Sea and, because of its rugged setting and vast collection ...Edinburgh's Royal MileThe Royal Mile is the popular name for the succession of streets which form the main thoroughfare of Edinburgh's Old Town. As the name suggests, it was equivalent to a Scottish mile between two foci of history in Scotland, from Edinburgh Castle at the top of the Castle Rock down to Holyrood Abbey. Although it is often said to ...Royal Mile. It is the fifteenth of the Inspector RebusThe Inspector Rebus books are a series of detective novels by the Scottish author Ian Rankin. The novels, centred around the title character Detective Inspector John Rebus, are mostly based in and around Edinburgh.Inspector Rebus novels. It was released in the USA under the title Fleshmarket Alley. It was the second episode in the second RebusRebus is the title of the detective drama based on the Inspector Rebus novels by the Scottish author Ian Rankin based in and around Edinburgh produced by SMG Productions (STV) for the ITV Network. Three series have been aired so far; series 1 starred John Hannah and was made for STV by his own production company, Clerkenwell Films. A new cast featuring Ken Stott as DI Rebus was introduced in the second series (which went into production in 2005, made ...Rebus television series starring Ken StottKenneth Campbell Stott (born 1955, Edinburgh) is a Scottish film and television actor, particularly known in the United Kingdom for his many roles in the latter medium. His father was a Scot and his mother was Sicilian. For three years in his youth he was a member of a band called Keyhole, members of which later went on to form the Bay City Rollers. After attending Mountview Theatre School in London, Stott began working in the theatre for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the age of twenty, but for some years his earnings from acting ...Ken Stott, airing in 2006.
