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Knots and Crosses
First UK edition
AuthorIan Rankin
LanguageEnglish
SeriesInspector Rebus
GenreDetective fiction
Set inEdinburgh and Fife, 1985
PublisherThe Bodley Head
Publication date
1987
Publication placeScotland
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages168 pp
ISBN0-3703-1057-8
OCLC60611210
Dewey Decimal
823.914
LC ClassPR6068 .A57
Followed byHide 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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