A review by nwhyte
Beggars Banquet by Ian Rankin

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1908210.html

The stories in this collection varyin in length from full novella (a variation on the opening of Dead Souls) to a few pages; about half of them have Rebus solving a mystery, and the weaker stories tend to be from the other half. Generally good and entertaining stuff, though.