The Beat Goes On (short story collection)

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The Beat Goes On
First edition
Author	Ian Rankin
Language	English
Series	Inspector Rebus
Genre	Short Stories
Publisher	Orion Books
Publication date	2014
Publication place	Scotland
Media type	Print
Pages	611
ISBN	978-1-4091-5157-9

The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Short Stories is an anthology of all the Inspector Rebus short stories (30) by Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin, plus the novella Death Is Not the End; though the Rebus short story "Well Shot" published in 2nd Culprit (1993) is not included. It is Rankin's third collection of short stories.

History

Published in 2014, the paperback version published in 2015 includes two stories not in the hardback edition; a new story "Cinders" written for Christmas 2014 and an old story from his files "My Shopping Day" which was first published in "Herbert in Motion and Other Stories" (1997).

The first story "Dead and Buried" is set in the mid-1980s when Rebus was learning the ropes at Summerhall Police Station, and "The Very Last Drop" is set during a tour of a brewery immediately after Rebus's retirement in Exit Music, a retirement present from Siobhan Clarke who goes with him (written to be read aloud at a charity night at Edinburgh's Caledonian Brewery). "The Very Last Drop" was written to help the work of Royal Blind.^[1]

All the twelve Rebus stories in A Good Hanging and Other Stories are included: they cover a chronological year in Rebus's life; "Playback" in March, "A Good Hanging" in August during the Festival Fringe and "Auld Lang Syne" in December.^[2] Also included are the seven Rebus stories in Beggars Banquet which has fourteen other stories, 21 in total. There are six uncollected stories from magazines and newspapers, often for a Christmas issue so set in the festive season. There are two new stories, "The Passenger" and "A Three-Pint Problem".

In the Preface (page 1) and Rankin on Rebus (pages 595–609) Rankin discusses Rebus and writing him.

Further Copyright Information (pages 610–611) gives the year of first publication as shown below and where published. Up till about 1997 they are ©Ian Rankin, then they are ©John Rebus Limited.

In the notes AGH indicates that the story was first published in A Good Hanging and Other Stories in 1992. BB indicates that the story was included in Beggars Banquet (2002), but these stories had been previously published elsewhere in magazines or newspapers.

Featured Short Stories:

Year	Title	Notes
2013	Dead and Buried
1990	Playback
1992	The Dean Curse	AGH
1992	Being Frank	AGH
1992	Concrete Evidence	AGH
1992	Seeing Things	AGH
1992	A Good Hanging	AGH
1992	Tit For Tat	AGH
1992	Not Provan	AGH
1992	Sunday	AGH
1992	Auld Lang Syne	AGH
1992	The Gentlemen's Club	AGH
1992	Monstrous Trumpet	AGH
1997	My Shopping Day
1991	Talk Show	BB
1992	Trip Trap	BB
1993	Castle Dangerous	BB
1992	In The Frame	BB
1994	Facing The Music	BB
1995	Window of Opportunity	BB
1998	Death Is Not the End	BB
2000	No Sanity Clause	BB
2003	Tell Me Who to Kill
2002	Saint Nicked
2005	Atonement
2005	Not Just Another Saturday
2010	Penalty Clause
2014	The Passenger
2014	A Three-Pint Problem
2010	The Very Last Drop
2014	Cinders

References

^ Preface, page 1
^ Preface, page 1

v t e Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series
Novels	Knots and Crosses Hide and Seek Tooth and Nail Strip Jack The Black Book Mortal Causes Let it Bleed Black & Blue The Hanging Garden Dead Souls Set in Darkness The Falls Resurrection Men A Question of Blood Fleshmarket Close The Naming of the Dead Exit Music Standing in Another Man's Grave Saints of the Shadow Bible Even Dogs in the Wild Rather Be the Devil In a House of Lies A Song for the Dark Times A Heart Full of Headstones
Short story collections	A Good Hanging and Other Stories The Beat Goes On
Characters	John Rebus
Television	Rebus (2000–07) "A Question of Blood" "Strip Jack" "Let It Bleed" "Resurrection Men" "The First Stone" "The Naming of the Dead" "Knots and Crosses" Rebus (2024–present)
Stage	Long Shadows

v t e 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) In a House of Lies (2018) A Song for the Dark Times (2020) The Dark Remains (2021; with William McIlvanney) A Heart Full of Headstones (2022)
Short story collections	A Good Hanging and Other Stories (1992) Beggars Banquet (2002) The Beat Goes On (2014)
Plays	Dark Road (2013) Long Shadows (2018)
Short stories	Death is Not the End (1998)
Related articles	Inspector Rebus

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