Mortal causes
Subtitle: an Inspector Rebus novel
By: Ian Rankin.
Publisher: Orion
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Rebus, Inspector (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Police -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- Fiction.; Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction.
Description: When a brutally tortured body is discoverd in one of Edinburgh's mysterious subterranean streets, it seems as if a sinister echo of the city's plague-ridden past has resurfaced. But Inspector John Rebus discerns a more modern evil, sectarian terrorism, behind the gruesomne discovery.