BEST-SELLING

crime author Ian Rankin is planning to ‘name and shame’ the publishers who rejected his first Inspector Rebus novel.

The 57-year-old, who has sold 30million books about the Edinburgh detective, will be exhibiting the rejection letters at the city’s Writers’ Museum later this month.

He observes wryly: ‘If it wasn’t for publisher Number Six, I’d probably still be writing for a South London hi-fi mag and struggling to make ends meet.’