“Polarities within an Entity”: The Case of Burke and Hare and Ian Rankin’s The Falls (2001) by Silvia Mergenthal

“…Using as its prime example Ian Rankin’s 2001 Rebus novel The Falls, this paper sketches the cultural history of one notorious criminal case, that of William Burke and William Hare. …”
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Lowering Refugee Levels by Howard Adelman

“… In the Toronto Star of October 6, 1982, your advisor on immigration, Ian Rankin, suggests that Canada's refugee intake will be reduced in response to financial constraints of the federal government. …”
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"Scotland Small? Our Multiform, Our Infinite Scotland Small?" Scotland's Literary Contribution to the Modern World by Aniela Korzeniowska

“…It is also in looking at the achievements of such diverse writers as Muriel Spark, James Kelman and Ian Rankin as well as poets Ian Hamilton Finlay, Edwin Morgan, Jackie Kay, or the present Scottish Poet Laureate Liz Lochhead, among others, that we can see how significant their literary oeuvre is for a better understanding of the modern world. …”
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Offshore Mysteries, Narrative Infrastructure: Oil, Noir, and the World-Ocean by Harry Pitt Scott

“…Then, it turns to a comparative reading of two novels, Carlos Fuentes’s <i>The Hydra Head</i> (1978) and Ian Rankin’s <i>Black & Blue</i> (1997), to argue that such novels provide an understanding of relationships between world-literary genre, forms of energy, and the world-oceanic regime of the offshore. …”
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