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“[TV detective Columbo is] a socialist figure,” Rankin says. “He comes into these very rich people’s lives and tears them apart, and they don’t know he’s doing it until he’s already done it. I just thought that was extraordinary.”
—“The crime fiction I’m interested in is political”: Ian Rankin on his new novel about the super-rich
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“Ah, his computer – it’s had its screen and hard drive replaced, and there are grooves in the keys.
It sits on top of a plain, compact trestle-table desk he bought on London’s Charing Cross Road in 1987 and lugged back to his Tottenham flat on the tube; both have accompanied him from London to rural Dordogne, in southwest France, where he lived for a few years with his wife, Miranda, in the 1990s, and back to Edinburgh, where the couple and their two sons have been ever since.”
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