John Rebus (English Wikipedia)

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Cabell 2010, p. 186. Cabell, Craig (2010). Ian Rankin and Inspector Rebus. London: Metro Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84454-866-8.

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Cast and creatives have been announced for the world premiere of Ian Rankin and Simon Reade’s Rebus: A Game Called Malice at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch. – britishtheatre.com, 9 January 2023

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Goldbart, Max (3 November 2022). "Ian Rankin's 'Rebus' Returns To TV As Viaplay's Debut UK Original". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
Goldbart, Max (16 March 2023). "Viaplay Finds Its Inspector Rebus". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 17 March 2023.

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According to Knots and Crosses, Chapter 16, John was conceived when his father “was on one of his last leaves” from the Army during the Second World War, which would imply John was born in 1944 or 1945. In an interview in 2000, however, Rankin referred to Rebus as being 38 years old in 1987, which would put his birthdate as late as 1949: J. Kingston Pierce, “Ian Rankin, the Accidental Crime Writer” January Magazine, January 2000.

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Edinburgh author Ian Rankin’s Rebus story written exclusively for stage gets Scottish premiere in Capital – edinburghnews.scotsman.com, 28 June 2024

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In 2005, Helen Eadie, MSP for an area including Rebus’s hometown of Cardenden, spoke up in the Scottish Parliament about changing the police retirement age in order to prolong Rebus’s career. Greig Cameron, “I don’t need a Re-bus pass: MSP throws fictional cop a lifeline,” Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail, 8 September 2005.

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Lanchester, John (19 April 2000). "Secrets and lies: the impossible world of DI John Rebus". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
Melanie McGrath, “Even Dogs in the Wild by Ian Rankin review – a satisfying return for Rebus,” The Guardian 23 October 2015.
Note, however, that Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll lives in London, not Edinburgh. Rankin has said he wants to rectify that. Lanchester, John (19 April 2000). "Secrets and lies: the impossible world of DI John Rebus". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 March 2017.

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Ian Rankin: A Rebus for the Dark Times, interview with Ruth Wishart at the 2020 Edinburgh International Book Festival, at 9:45. Rankin had expressed in a 2017 interview that “In my head he is mid-sixties” (at a time when he should have been turning 70); McGinty, Stephen2017-03-19. "Rebus not ready for the final chapter". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 19 March 2017.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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Steve Bloomfield, "Rebus and the Rejected Rolling Stone," The Independent 12 March 2006 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
Paul Dalgarno, "Rebus was a Rolling Stone," Sunday Herald 5 March 2006] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 May 2006. Retrieved 5 March 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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Lanchester, John (19 April 2000). "Secrets and lies: the impossible world of DI John Rebus". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
Note, however, that Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll lives in London, not Edinburgh. Rankin has said he wants to rectify that. Lanchester, John (19 April 2000). "Secrets and lies: the impossible world of DI John Rebus". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 March 2017.

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Ian Rankin: A Rebus for the Dark Times, interview with Ruth Wishart at the 2020 Edinburgh International Book Festival, at 9:45. Rankin had expressed in a 2017 interview that “In my head he is mid-sixties” (at a time when he should have been turning 70); McGinty, Stephen2017-03-19. "Rebus not ready for the final chapter". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 19 March 2017.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
In a 2017 discussion in Australia, Rankin notes that “It can take me weeks to come up with a great one-liner for Rebus.” Ian Rankin with Shane Maloney, WheelerCentre, May 28 2017.
"John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues". YouTube. 28 May 2020. Retrieved 21 May 2022.