About to embark on an American books tour,the author of the Rebus novels explains why crime fiction is a means of exploring the murky side of the modern worldIt is an inauspicious-looking situation, the Oxford Bar, and in Edinburgh’s New Town. It sits on a cobbled side street,its plain white façade and cast iron sign vaguely imposing. Inside, it’s the kind of pub where, or nearly a decade on from Britain’s smoking ban,there remains a metaphorical fug.
Yet several times a week visitors from across the US arrive here with cameras and questions.
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Source: theguardian.com