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
Beggars Banquet (book) Beggars Banquet (book) 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