Beggars Banquet (book)
 First edition | |
| Author | Ian Rankin |
|---|---|
| Country | Scotland |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Short Stories |
| Publisher | Orion Books |
Publication date | 2002 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 0-7528-5237-X |
Beggars Banquet is the second collection of short stories by crime writer Ian Rankin, which features 21 stories written between 1991 and 2000 and previously published in crime anthologies and magazines. Seven are Inspector Rebus stories. Rankin says in the Introduction I tend to write short stories in between books, as a way of getting the good Inspector out of my system for a while. Another, A Deep Hole, was originally set in Edinburgh, but was tweaked and set in London for a 1999 volume London Noir.
The story "Herbert in Motion" is concerned with the theft of works of art from the storage facilities of the Tate Gallery by a curator, and their replacement with high quality forgeries to avoid detection of the crime; this also was the theme for the 2008 novel Doors Open.
Featured Short Stories:
| Trip trap An Inspector Rebus Story |
| Someone Got to Eddie |
| A Deep Hole |
| Natural Selection |
| Facing The Music An Inspector Rebus Story |
| Principles of Accounts |
| The Only True Comedian |
| Herbert in Motion |
| Glimmer |
| Unlucky in Love, Unlucky at Cards |
| Video, Nasty |
| Talk Show An Inspector Rebus Story |
| Castle Dangerous An Inspector Rebus Story |
| The Wider Scheme |
| Unknown Pleasures |
| In The Frame An Inspector Rebus Story |
| The Confession |
| The Hanged Man |
| Window of Opportunity An Inspector Rebus Story |
| The Serpent's Back |
| No Sanity Clause An Inspector Rebus Story |
| Death Is Not The End |