Andrew Gilligan

The retirement of Rebus

No place for him in Scotland’s new McCop megaforce

No place for him in Scotland’s new McCop megaforce

Here is an intro to get all Scottish Nationalists fuming about London media bias: Alex Salmond is abolishing John Rebus. Well, all right — this recalcitrant Scots detective never actually existed in the first place. And even in fiction, he’s been drawing his generous public-sector pension for some time now.

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