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Buy this book on-line RANKIN**, IAN: : Fleshmarket Close. [Author SIGNED+doodled copy.**]LONDON.ORION,2004. ISBN 0752851128.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED+doodled,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's black ink,underlined signature - without dedication - but doodled below signature (cartoon face),and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean b/w photographic upper wrap,author,colour portrait photographic illustrated rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges very,very lightly aged with faint,minimal, sporadic foxing(?)/spotting,fore-edges similar but brighter and clearer; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - possibly an unread copy? Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,plain black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked fluorescent green gilt letterig to spine/
backstrip and immaculate,plain dark green endpapers.Book has a light lean.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, author SIGNED+doodled,1st edn,3-399pp [paginated] includes 10 sections (days) comprising 32 chapters+epilogue; plus [unpaginated 4pp publisher's adverts,author SIGNED+doodled titlepage,a dedication,a quotation,acknowledgements,10 Day-separator pages and 4pp blanks at rear.
An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme: a racist attack,or something else entirely? Rebus is drawn into the case,but has other problems: his old police station has closed for business,and his masters would rather he retire than stick around.
But Rebus is that most stubborn of creatures.As he investigates,he must visit an asylum-seeker's detention centre,deal with the sleazy Edinburgh underworld,and maybe even fall in love. . . .
Siobahn,meanwhile,has problems of her own.A teenager has disappeared from home and Siobahn is drawn into helping the family,which will mean travelling closer than is healthy towards the web of a convicted rapist.Then there's the small matter of the two skeletons - a woman and an infant - found buried beneath a concrete cellar floor in Fleshmarket Close.The scene begins to look like an elaborate stunt - but whose,and for what purpose? And how does it tie into a murder on the unforgiving housing-scheme known as Knoxland?
'Fleshmarket Close' explores what it means to a society when shared heritage is lost beneath uglier aspects of our nature: greed,mistrust, violence and exploitation.
It is a true state of the nation novel,and one of Rebus's most personal cases yet.
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