Inspector Rebus span a broad spectrum of Scotland, including council estates, tenements, business districts, nightclubs, prisons, dying mining towns, secluded villages and desolate hillsides, as well as the better-known pubs and streets of Edinburgh. Some of these locations are fictional, although they may be based on real places. For example, the Pilmuir estate is a conflation of the two real Edinburgh locations Pilton and Muirhouse. Other locations, such as the Oxford Bar, Arden Street, and St Leonards police station, are real. Frequent references to real places, or local politics firmly ground the Rebus series in the real world. Another strong feature of
John Rebus adaptation of "Let It Bleed". Ron Donachie starred as Rebus in BBC Radio 4's dramatizations of "The Falls" (2008), "Resurrection Men" (2008), "Strip Jack" (2010), "The Black Book" (2012), "Black and Blue" (2013) and "Rebus Set in Darkness" (2014). BBC Radio has also broadcast abridged readings of Ian Rankin's "Rebus" novels, including "Let It Bleed" read by Alexander Morton, "Death Is Not the End" read by Douglas Henshall and "Beggar's Banquet" read by James MacPherson. John Rebus Detective Inspector John Rebus is the protagonist in the Inspector Rebus series of detective novels by the Scottish writer Ian Rankin, ten of