----- Original Message ----- From: "William Denton" <
buff@pobox.com>
> A question: how come Rebus doesn't have a partner?
Do the police in
> Scotland work differently, or is it just Rebus or
just this book? I'm
> used to police travelling in pairs. Rebus is
spending most of this book
> doing things he shouldn't, but even when he was
doing a routine murder
> investigation he didn't have a junior with
him,
>
Uniformed cops travel in pairs. This is because of a Scottish
legal point, known as corroboration. Essentially (and this
does not apply in England and Wales, who have a totally
separate legal system), evidence has to be backed up, ie
corroborated, so a single police officer's evidence wouldn't
be enough to bring a case to court. Hence, they travel in
pairs. The CID don't seem to do this. It may be no more than
a logistical restraint: there aren't enough of them.
> I saw half of the TV adaptation of this book, and
all of the adaptation of
> THE HANGING GARDEN. They make adequate TV if you
haven't read the books,
> but they're not much if you have. John Hannah's no
where near right for
> the part of Rebus, and they didn't seem to have any
budget for music
> rights.
I haven't been able to watch any of these TV adaptions. John
Hannah is too young, too handsome, too tanned, but, worst of
all, too soft. John Hannah couldn't scare ME, let alone an
Edinburgh gangster.
Al "Knuckles" Guthrie
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