“[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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