Edinburgh has also become associated with the crime novels of Ian Rankin, and the work of Irvine Welsh, whose novels are mostly set in the city and are often written in colloquial Scots.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Scottish crime fiction has been a major area of growth, particularly the success of Edinburgh's Ian Rankin and his Inspector Rebus novels.

* Witch Hunt ( novel ), a 1993 novel by Ian Rankin ( writing as Jack Harvey )

** Ian Rankin, Scottish crime novelist

The island is mentioned in the novels The Enemy by Desmond Bagley ( 1977 ), Sea of Death by Richard P. Henrick ( 1992 ), The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth ( 1994 ), Quantico by Greg Bear ( 2005 ), The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde ( 2005 ), Forbidden Island by Malcolm Rose ( 2009 ), And then you die by Iris Johansen ( 1998 ), The Island by R J Price ( better-known as the poet Richard Price ) ( 2010 ) and The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin ( 2011 ).

Welsh, Ian Rankin, and Alexander McCall Smith each contributed a short story for the One City compilation published in 2005 in benefit of the One City Trust for social inclusion in Edinburgh.

* Dark Entries by Ian Rankin and Werther Dell ' Edera, 2009

* April 28 – Ian Rankin, crime novelist

Scottish crime fiction has been a major area of growth with the success of novelists including Val McDermid, Frederic Lindsay, Christopher Brookmyre, Quintin Jardine, Denise Mina and particularly the success of Edinburgh's Ian Rankin and his Inspector Rebus novels.

Detective Inspector John Rebus is the protagonist in the Inspector Rebus series of detective novels by the Scottish writer Ian Rankin, ten of which have so far been televised as Rebus.

According to Ian Rankin, John Rebus was born in 1947 and grew up in a pre-fabricated house in Craigmead Terrace, Cardenden, Fife, the son of a stage hypnotist.

In a BBC Radio 4 interview Rankin said that he drew " some of his inspiration " for the character from the “ sixth Stone ”, Ian Stewart.

Ian Rankin believes that it was likely they would have made Rebus English or relocated the entire story to London.

A lot of Rebus's character foibles are glossed over in the adaptations, for example his large LP collection and the frequent popular music references and thoughts that Ian Rankin weaves into the stories.

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The 2005 festival hosted guests including Michael Palin and Germaine Greer ; Ian Rankin and Rory Bremner appeared in 2006.

; 2004 Ian Rankin, Resurrection Men

The lyrics to Aidan Moffat & The Best-Of's song " The Sixth Stone " were written by Ian Rankin about Stewart.

* Mortal Causes a 1994 novel by Ian Rankin, where the motto is a clue in solving a young man's murder.

The first crop of players included Ian Clarke, Ryan Rankin, Willie Bache, Alan Knott, Richard Congrave, Russel Dodd, Craig Gillett and Justin Taylor.

* Ian Rankin, the author of the Inspector Rebus novels also attended Beath High School.

Ian Rankin, OBE, DL ( born 28 April 1960 ) is a Scottish crime writer.

Dr Ian Gibson is another to leave his mark on politics.

In 1993 Burns made what he described as one of the hardest decisions of his life and had his manager tell Henry Cluney that his services were no longer needed and to leave the band, and the trio of Jake Burns, Bruce Foxton and Dolphin Taylor continued for the next four years, joined on live shows by either Dave Sharp or Ian McCallum.

Ian and Edward arrived from India on leave, Alexander Godley came from Britain, and Howard-Vyse as chief of staff to Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester.

Ian confides to Troi that he is the source of the crew's problems and will have to leave.

Back in London, the Doctor bids Susan farewell to have a new partnership with David and he, Ian and Barbara leave in the TARDIS.

As James Clavell did not leave a clear list of tai-pans, fans can only speculate and calculate for themselves ; a calculation of Alastair's and Ian Dunross's age and a consultation of the partial list in NOBLE HOUSE will support the two ROSS STRUAN theory.

's Ian Callaghan was unexpectedly called up by Ron Greenwood in 1977 ) to leave the international stage.

Tim Skedden unfortunately had to leave the band due to family commitments and Ian Munro decided to head back home to his native Britain.

When Helen leaves on a holiday to Italy with her married boyfriend, Michael ( Ian Hendry ), Carol appears distracted at work, refuses to leave her apartment, leaves a raw, skinned rabbit out to rot, and sees hallucinations, first of the walls cracking, then hands reaching out to grab and attack her, and repeated nightmares or hallucinations of a man breaking into her bedroom and raping her.

These changes worked well and Stingers steamed through Seasons 3, 4 and 5, but then Anita Hegh and Ian Stenlake decided to leave the show, causing another drastic change in the series.

He decided to leave the company during the 1979 Australasian tour, and author Ian Bradley relates one of the incidents that served as a tipping point: " At the end of their first rehearsal Australia, conductor Fraser Goulding asked the chorus to stay on for a few minutes just to polish the act 2 finale.

In October 2010 Ian Lucas, married in Juni 2009 and moved over to the eastern part of Holland, decides to leave the band.

In the end, with the Zarbi free from the control of the Animus and the Menoptra and Optera free to live on Vortis, the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki leave in the TARDIS.

Three other senior players, Tony Battersby, Kingsley Black, and Ian Hamilton, would later leave the club by mutual consent as their contracts, including appearance money, had made them too expensive for Alexander's plans.

Both Bistolfi and Barilari decided to leave, being replaced by Mario Ian on vocals and Javier Retamozo on keyboards.

Season Two ends with Ian and Lisa sitting in their car debating whether to leave the village ; Ian cannot bear to live there anymore due to the hostility shown by Lisa's family to him but Lisa does not want to live back in London.

Pippa decides to leave town to live with her new boyfriend Ian Routledge ( Patrick Dickson ) and Sally assumes she will let her and Tim move into the house.

Marion Post ( Gena Rowlands ) is a New York philosophy professor past the age of 50, married to Ken ( Ian Holm ), a doctor, and on a leave of absence to write a new book.

Pete Beale was the obvious choice as his death would leave Kathy a widow and Ian ( his son ) would have to take over as head of the house.