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Rankin is best known for his ''Inspector Rebus'' novels, which are set in Edinburgh . ''Black and Blue'', ''The Hanging Garden'', ''Dead Souls'' and ''Mortal Causes'' have been televised on ITV, starring John Hannah as Inspector Rebus. After Hannah's retirement from the role, Ken Stott , hailed by many fans of the series as an ideal fit for the character, was signed to play the Inspector. The first adaptations with Stott as Rebus, ''The Falls'' and ''Fleshmarket Close'' were screened in early 2006. Rankin did not set out to be a crime writer. He thought his first novels ''Knots and Crosses'' and ''Hide and Seek'' were mainstream books more in keeping with the Scottish traditions of Robert Louis Stevenson and even Muriel Spark (the subject of Rankin's PhD studies) and was disconcerted by their classification as genre fiction. He was reassured by Scottish novelist, Allan Massie , who tutored Rankin while Massie was writer-in-residence at Edinburgh University , that who would want to be a dry academic writer when "they could be John Buchan ?" Rankin has been elected as a Hawthornden Fellow and won the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He has also won two Crime Writers Association (CWA) ‘Dagger’s for Short-Stories and in 1997 the CWA Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction for ''Black and Blue'' (which was also short listed for the Mystery Writers Of America Edgar Award for best novel). He eventually won the Edgar in 2004 for ''Resurrection Men''. In 2005 he was awarded the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger to mark a lifetime's achievement in crime writing. He has honorary doctorates, one from the University Of Abertay Dundee and one, more recently, from the University Of St Andrews . In June 2002 he was awarded the Order Of The British Empire in the Golden Jubilee Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to literature. He is a regular contributor to the BBC Two arts programme ''Late Review''. His 3-part documentary series on the subject of Evil was broadcast on Channel 4 in December 2002. In 2005 he collaborated with folk musician Jackie Leven on the album ''Jackie Leven said''. NOVELS To date he has written at least 21 novels, including: Inspector Rebus novels #''Knots and Crosses'' (1987) #''Hide and Seek'' (1991) #''Wolfman'' (later known as ''Tooth and Nail'') (1992) '''A Good Hanging' and Other Stories'' (1992) — short stories #''Strip Jack'' (1992) #''The Black Book'' (1993) #''Mortal Causes'' (1994) #''Let it Bleed'' (1996) #''Black and Blue'' (1997) #''The Hanging Garden'' (1998) ''Death is not the End'' (1998) — novella #''Dead Souls'' (1999) #''Set in Darkness'' (2000) #''The Falls'' (2001) #''Resurrection Men'' (2002) ''Beggars Banquet'' (2002) — short stories seven new Rebus stories and ''Death is not the End'' #''A Question of Blood'' (2003) #''Fleshmarket Close'' (2004) #''The Naming of the Dead'' (2006) (To be released on 18 October ) Inspector Rebus Collections
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