id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1501 Ian Rankin - Wikipedia .html text/html 4992 703 76 Ian James Rankin OBE DL FRSE FRSL (born 28 April 1960) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels. The Scottish novelist Allan Massie, who tutored Rankin while Massie was writer-in-residence at the University of Edinburgh, reassured him by saying, "Do you think John Buchan ever worried about whether he was writing literature or not?"[7] They lived for a number of years in the Merchiston/Morningside area,[20] near the authors JK Rowling, Alexander McCall Smith and Kate Atkinson,[21] before moving to a penthouse flat in the former Edinburgh Royal Infirmary building in Quartermile in Lauriston.[22] The couple also own a house in Cromarty in the Scottish Highlands.[23] Rankin appears as a character in McCall Smith's 2004 novel, 44 Scotland Street. To date, he has published 25 novels, two short story collections, one original graphic novel and one novella, and a non-fiction book. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1501.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1501.txt