Knots & Crosses
by Ian Rankin
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0385243073
- ISBN 13
- 9780385243070
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Synopsis
Knots and 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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- Bookmarc's (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- EC42637BB
- Title
- Knots & Crosses
- Author
- Ian Rankin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385243073
- ISBN 13
- 9780385243070
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- INSPECTOR REBUS FICTITIOUS CHARACTER FICTION MYSTERY DETECTIVE HARD-BOILED POLICE PROCEDURALS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction: Mystery / Authors P-Z; Fiction: Mystery / Hard-Boiled & Noir;
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