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Beggar's Banquet is something of a departure for Ian Rankin and a very welcome one. Over the years, Rankin has built up an imposing portfolio of short stories. Appearing in crime magazines, written for personal appearances, or as one-off radio specials, they all resound with the singular energy and idiosyncratic characterisation of his best full-length novels. A previous collection, A Good Hanging , combined some first-rate tales with more workaday material, but this time round there isn't a single weak link, and the range of stories here is astonishing; this is a panoply of Rankin's approach to crime and mystery writing, and is that rare thing in short story collections: a book in which the tales can be read one after the other with ever-increasing pleasure. We are taken into territory that is horrific ( The Hanged Man ), grimly ironic ( The Only True Comedian ) and even sociological ( Glimmer is a hard-edged picture of how the optimism and hedonism of the 60's was swiftly eroded). And who could resist lines such as the following (in Unknown Pleasures ): He could feel the sweat, even though it was more viscous than sweat⦠more like a sheen of cooking oil. The tenement stai

Author

Rankin, Ian

Publisher

Orion Publishing Group

Published

2002

Language

EN

Rating

3.88 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14