Over the years, Ian Rankin has amassed an incredible portfolio of short stories. Published in crime magazines, composed for events, broadcast on radio, they all share the best qualities of his phenomenally popular novels. Now Ian Rankin's two critically acclaimed short story collections - A Good Hanging and Beggars Banquet - come together in one volume for the first time, along with Atonement, a blistering new Rebus story written especially for this collection.