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> Behalf Of Mark Weiss
> Sent: 16 May 2005 15:03
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> Subject: Re: "The Good Thief" (spoiler)
>
> Here's one I came across recently: Louise Welsh's The Cutting
> Room, Glasgow antiques auctioneer as detective. Dialect
> restricted to a few lines of dialogue, but nice location
> woek, though I no nothing beyond it about Glasgow's sexual
> underground.
It's a strange one. Don't think I would have finished it if I didn't have to
interview the author, a couple of years ago. Interesting conceit, but I was
looking for a connection between the conceit and the improbable name of the
hero, i.e. Rilke. There didn't seem to be a deep raison d'etre for that
choice. (One thing that irritates me about Rankin's Inspector Rebus, for
that matter, is the name -- did you ever meet someone called Rebus?)
> On late night tv I caught a strange film about University of
> Glasgow grad students rooming together in a dilapidated
> apartment who go bonkers and start doing each other in. Must
> be 15 years old. I should have written the title down. Ant
> lights go on?
Shallow Grave?
> > > Yes, I've read two of Brookmyre's novels - A Big Boy Did
> It and Ran
> > > Away - which would have to be one of the best title's ever
From a Billy Connolly (dammit, how d'you spell Connolly?) joke.
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