A Good Hanging and Other Stories

A Good Hanging and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by crime writer Ian Rankin.

The collection features Ian Rankin's popular Detective Inspector Rebus. The collection is of 12 short stories set in Edinburgh, where Ian Rankin sets almost all of his novels.

The Short Stories:

Playback
The Dean Curse
Being Frank
Concrete Evidence
Seeing Things
A Good Hanging
Tit For Tat
Not Provan
Sunday
Auld Lang Syne
The Gentlemen's Club
Monstrous Trumpet
Works by Ian Rankin
Novels
  • The Flood (1986)
  • Knots and Crosses (1987)
  • Watchman (1988)
  • Westwind (1990)
  • Hide and Seek (1991)
  • Tooth and Nail (1992)
  • Strip Jack (1992)
  • The Black Book (1993)
  • Witch Hunt (1993)
  • Mortal Causes (1994)
  • Bleeding Hearts (1994)
  • Let It Bleed (1995)
  • Blood Hunt (1995)
  • Black & Blue (1997)
  • The Hanging Garden (1998)
  • Dead Souls (1999)
  • Set in Darkness (2000)
  • The Falls (2001)
  • Resurrection Men (2002)
  • A Question of Blood (2003)
  • Fleshmarket Close (2004)
  • The Naming of the Dead (2006)
  • Exit Music (2007)
  • Doors Open (2008)
  • A Cool Head (2009, Quick Reads)
  • The Complaints (2009)
  • The Impossible Dead (2011)
  • Standing in Another Man's Grave (2012)
Short story collections
  • A Good Hanging and Other Stories (1992)
  • Beggars Banquet (2002)
Non-fiction
  • Rebus's Scotland: A Personal Journey (2005)
  • Jackie Leven Said (2005, With Jackie Leven)
Graphic novels
  • Dark Entries (2009)
Short stories
  • An Afternoon (1984)
  • Voyeurism (1985)
  • Colony (1986)
  • Trip Trap (1992)
  • Marked For Death (1992)
  • Well Shot (1993)
  • Someone Got to Eddie (1994)
  • A Deep Hole (1994)
  • Adventures in Babysitting (1995)
  • Natural Selection (1996)
  • Auld Lang Syne (1997)
  • Principles of Accounts (1997)
  • Death is Not the End (1998)
  • The Hanged Man (2000)
  • Saint Nicked (2003)
  • Soft Spot (2005)
  • Not Just Another Saturday (2005)
  • Sinner: Justified (2006)
Related articles
  • Inspector Rebus
  • Quick Reads
  • Jackie Leven
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Gold Dagger


Famous quotes containing the words hanging and/or stories:

    “Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.”
    —Denise McCluggage (b. 1927)

    “We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.”
    —Frances Beale, African American feminist and civil rights activist. The Black Woman, ch. 14 (1970)