Rebus's Scotland - A Personal Journey - Ian Rankin
On the subject of anniversaries and detectives, I’m indeed very pleased Mairiuna to talk about another well known Scottish author, Ian Rankin, creator of the famous Scottish detective Sergeant John Rebus.
Back in 1987, when his novel Knots & Crosses introducing for the first time Inspector Rebus was published, Ian Rankin had no idea that he would win, in 1991-92, the world’s most prestigious detective-fiction prize, the Chandler-Fulbright Award.
As he writes in the introduction to Rebus: The Early Years:
“I was living in a room in a ground-floor flat in Arden Street, so my hero, John Rebus, had to live across the road. When the book was published, I found to my astonishment that everyone was saying I’d written a whodunit,a crime novel. I think I’m still the only crime writer I know who hadn’t a clue about the genre before setting out…”
To celebrate the 20th birth anniversary of his famous Inspector, Ian Rankin visited Highland Park Whisky Distillery on the Orkney Islands, one of the world’s most remote Scotch whisky distilleries, to inquire if they would accept to be “Partners in Crime” to produce a single cask of 20-year-old Highland Park to be bottled as “Highland Park Rebus 20 “.
They were delighted with the idea!
Highland Park Whisky - Rebus 20
Happily, Rankin selected for this limited edition of 150 bottles, a dark caramel colour, rugged and manly smokey type of whisky because that was Inspector Rebus’s preferences.
So here’s the answer to the title’s question: “What does Highland Park Whisky and Inspector John Rebus have in common?
” They are both high quality products,created by master craftsmen which continue to exceed expectations over a long period of time.”
Jason Craig, Global Controller of Highland Park Distillery.
No doubt Mairiuna that Jean-Claude, being fond of Scottish whisky, would be thrilled to acquire such a bottle!
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