Tartan triumph
Aug 15, 2021
2 minutes
by CRAIG SISTERSON
ack in the mid-1980s, long before he became the modern king of British crime writing, Ian Rankin was a young PhD student meeting his literary idol at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. William McIlvanney was a prize-winning literary novelist who became the “Godfather of Tartan Noir” by using gritty
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