Author | Ian Rankin |
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Language | English |
Series | Inspector Rebus |
Genre | Detective fiction |
Publisher | Orion Books |
Publication date | 2004 |
Publication place | Scotland |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 399 pp |
ISBN | 0-7528-5112-8 |
OCLC | 57380705 |
Preceded by | A Question of Blood |
Followed by | The Naming of the Dead |
Fleshmarket Close is a 2004 crime novel by Ian Rankin, and is named after a real close in Edinburgh between the High Street and Market Street, crossing Cockburn Street. It is the fifteenth of the Inspector Rebus novels. "Fleshmarket" is the Scots term for butcher's market. It was released in the US under the title Fleshmarket Alley. The novel was the basis for the second episode in the second Rebus television series starring Ken Stott which was aired in 2006.