Thanks, it was Shallow Grave. Also a strange one.
The pleasure of the Welsh for me was almost entirely the locales, tho she
doesn't invest very deply. In the auction-house/collector milieu, which is
one of my stomping grounds. I also wondered about "Rilke." Not least
because he's a Glasgow lad.
Mark
At 09:46 PM 5/16/2005, you wrote:
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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.
>
>P
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