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Ian Rankin is considered by many to be Scotland's greatest living
crime fiction author. Most well known for his Inspector Rebus
series-which has earned critical acclaim as well as scores of fans
worldwide-Rankin is a prolific author whose other works include spy
thrillers, nonfiction books and articles, short stories, novels,
graphic novels, audio recordings, television/film, and plays. This
companion-the first to provide a complete look at all of his
writings-includes alphabetized entries on Rankin's works,
characters, and themes; a biography; a chronology; maps of Rebus'
Edinburgh; and an annotated bibliography. A champion of both
Edinburgh and Scotland, Rankin continues to combine engaging
entertainment with socio-political commentary showing Edinburgh as
a microcosm of Scotland, and Scotland as a microcosm of the world.
His writing investigates questions of Scottish identity, British
history, masculinity, and contemporary culture while providing
mystery readers with complex, suspenseful plots, realistic
character development, and a unique mix of American hard-boiled and
procedural styles with Scottish dialects and sensibilities.
Robert Downey, Jr., may be best known as Iron Man, but his career
as an actor stretches back to the 1980s and features several
Oscar-quality roles. He has worked with a wide range of innovative
directors from Oliver Stone and Robert Altman to Richard Linklater
and Shane Black, and has played punk kids, detectives, journalists
and even a serial killer. This fascinating collection of essays
combines scholarly attention to detail with a highly readable style
to examine, in roughly chronological order, more than 25 of
Downey's best performances in films as diverse as Less Than Zero,
Chaplin, Natural Born Killers, A Scanner Darkly, The Soloist and
Tropic Thunder. Including a biography, chronology and filmography,
the book highlights the inseparability of the actor's biography
from his works and from the unique combination of talents he brings
to his roles.
One of the most prolific crime writers of the last century, Evan
Hunter published more than 120 novels from 1952 to 2005 under a
variety of pseudonymns. He also wrote several teleplays and
screenplays, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and the 1954
novel The Blackboard Jungle. When the Mystery Writers of America
named Hunter a Grand Master, he gave the designation to his alter
ego, Evan McBain, best known for his long-running police procedural
series about the detectives of the 87th Precinct. This
comprehensive companion provides detailed information about all of
Evan Hunter's/Ed McBain's works, characters, and recurring themes.
From police detective and crime stories to dramatic novels and
films, this reference celebrates the vast body of literature of
this versatile writer.
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