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Classic Serial: Rebus: The Black Book

Ron Donachie

Gayanne Potter

Steven McNicoll

Sean Biggerstaff

Douglas Russell

Paul Young

Simon Donaldson

Richard Conlon

Shauna Macdonald

Anne Downie

Chris Dolan

Bruce Young

Classic Serial: Rebus: The Black Book: Episode 1

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Rebus: The Black Book

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, Rebus: The Black Book, Episode 1

Ian Rankin's maverick detective, Inspector Rebus, investigates an unsolved murder.

Ian Rankin's maverick detective, Inspector Rebus, investigates an unsolved murder, with the help of a notebook full of coded clues. Dramatised in two parts by Chris Dolan.

1/2. Ian Rankin's maverick detective, Inspector John Rebus, investigates an unsolved murder with the help of a notebook full of coded clues.

Dramatised in two parts by Chris Dolan.

When DS Brian Holmes is left in a coma after being severely beaten, Rebus discovers his colleague's black notebook contains coded clues on a case involving arson and murder. Five years before, a mysterious fire burned down Edinburgh's seedy Central Hotel. All the staff and customers were accounted for but an unidentified body was found in the rubble. The post mortem revealed the victim had died from a bullet through the heart before the fire broke out. 

Producer/director: Bruce Young.

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Ian Rankin's maverick detective, Inspector Rebus, investigates an unsolved murder

Ian Rankin's maverick detective, Inspector Rebus, investigates an unsolved murder, with the help of a notebook full of coded clues

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