Beggars Banquet (book)

Beggars Banquet
First edition
Author	Ian Rankin
Country	Scotland
Language	English
Genre	Short Stories
Publisher	Orion Books
Publication date	2002
Media type	Print
Pages	320
ISBN	0-7528-5237-X

Beggars Banquet is the second collection of short stories by crime writer Ian Rankin.

It features 21 stories written between 1991 and 2000. The collection features the novella "Death Is Not the End". The story "Herbert in Motion" is concerned with the theft of works of art from the storage facilities of a major Gallery and their replacement with high quality forgeries to avoid detection of the crime, which was also the basis for the 2008 novel Doors Open.

Featured Short Stories:

Trip trap
Someone Got to Eddie
A Deep Hole
Natural Selection
Facing The Music
Principles of Accounts
The Only True Comedian
Herbert in Motion
Glimmer
Unlucky in Love, Unlucky at Cards
Video, Nasty
Talk Show
Castle Dangerous
The Wider Scheme
Unknown Pleasures
In The Frame
The Confession
The Hanged Man
Window of Opportunity
The Serpent's Back
No Sanity Clause
Death Is Not The End

Works by Ian Rankin

Novels	The Flood (1986) Knots and Crosses (1987) Watchman (1988) Westwind (1990) Hide and Seek (1991) Tooth and Nail (1992) Strip Jack (1992) The Black Book (1993) Witch Hunt (1993) Mortal Causes (1994) Bleeding Hearts (1994) Let It Bleed (1995) Blood Hunt (1995) Black & Blue (1997) The Hanging Garden (1998) Dead Souls (1999) Set in Darkness (2000) The Falls (2001) Resurrection Men (2002) A Question of Blood (2003) Fleshmarket Close (2004) The Naming of the Dead (2006) Exit Music (2007) Doors Open (2008) A Cool Head (2009, Quick Reads) The Complaints (2009) The Impossible Dead (2011) Standing in Another Man's Grave (2012) Saints of the Shadow Bible (2013) Even Dogs In The Wild (2015) Rather be the Devil (2016)

Short story collections	A Good Hanging and Other Stories (1992) Beggars Banquet (2002)

Plays	Dark Road

Short stories	Death is Not the End (1998)

Related articles	Inspector Rebus

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