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Ian
Rankin
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Welcome!
Rebustours is the official site for the acclaimed
walking tours of Edinburgh based on the best-selling Inspector
Rebus
books by Ian Rankin.
Since their launch in 2000, the tours have attracted
Rebus fans old and new from all over the world on a discovery
of the “alternative” side to Edinburgh that
lies behind the normal tourist haunts!
Devised by Edinburgh local history expert John Skinner,
in close co-operation with Ian Rankin himself and his publishers
Orion Books of London, the tours blend unusual historical
fact with Edinburgh’s rich legacy of detective fiction.
Informed personal guiding and selected readings
from the Rebus novels - in many of the locations featured
in the books - bring Edinburgh alive for both the diehard
Ian Rankin fan and those new to the world of Inspector
Rebus.
Ian Rankin has said of the tours (on which he has
been himself): John knows more about Rebus than I do…
Click on the options to find out more about the
tours and how you can book.
 You
can see the small dolls in their wooden “coffins” which
are part of the plot of “The Falls” by visiting
the Museum of Scotland in Chambers Street, Edinburgh. The
museum houses a wonderful collection of artifacts relating
to Scotland’s history and peoples and the dolls are
exhibited on the fouth floor. They were discovered by some
small boys playing around on Arthur’s Seat in 1836
and may have some connection with the infamous Burke and
Hare, the serial killers who supplied the Edinburgh University
school of medicine with corpses for anatomical research in
the late 1820s. The Museum is open every day.
Situated nearby in Hill Square, just off Nicholson Street,
is the Jules Thorn Museum of Surgery which is part of the
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh's archives. The museum
is normally open Mondays to Fridays in the afternoons and
forms the backdrop for several scenes in "The Falls".
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Ian Rankin's latest book, Exit Music, was
published in October 2007. |
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News
Colin Brown conducts the Body Politic tour
every Saturday from the Royal Oak pub in Infirmary Street at
1p.m., finishing at 3p.m. in Fleshmarket Close. He also conducts
the New Town Old Crimes tour every Sunday which starts
(and finishes) in the Oxford Bar at 1p.m. Please arrive early
as the tours start promptly.
We are now taking bookings for Rebustours
for 2008 and beyond. Please visit the Booking
page for
details.
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