THE LONE WOLF OR THE WHOLE PACK: ACHIEVING JUSTICE IN THE EARLY REBUS NOVELS
THE LONE WOLF OR THE WHOLE PACK: ACHIEVING JUSTICE IN THE EARLY REBUS NOVELS

Summary/Abstract: Ian Rankin's Rebus novels have been classified either as "tartan noir" (the Scottish hardboiled) or as police procedurals. Both classifications make sense, the first from the point of view of the character type, the second from the way the investigation of murder and the apprehension of the murderer are staged in the novels. My paper will analyze the early Rebus novels both as instances of the "tartan noir" and as police procedurals, dwelling on the Gothic elements as the heritage of Robert Louis Stevenson and on the staging of justice as a collective enterprise.

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