For the folk band Knots and Crosses, see Carol Noonan.
1987 novel by Ian Rankin
Knots and Crosses
First UK edition
Author
Ian Rankin
Language
English
Series
Inspector Rebus
Genre
Detective fiction
Set in
Edinburgh and Fife, 1985
Publisher
The Bodley Head
Publication date
1987
Publication place
Scotland
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages
168 pp
ISBN
0-3703-1057-8
OCLC
60611210
Dewey Decimal
823.914
LC Class
PR6068 .A57
Followed by
Hide and Seek
Knots and Crosses (also written Knots & Crosses) is a 1987 crime novel by Ian Rankin. It is the first of the Inspector Rebus novels. It was written while Rankin was a postgraduate student at the University of Edinburgh. In the introduction to this novel, Rankin states that Rebus lives directly opposite the window in Marchmont that he looked out of while writing the book.
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and punk musician in a band called the Dancing Pigs. Rankin did not set out to be a crime writer. He thought his first novels, KnotsandCrossesand Hide...
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