And I said, well, I never looked in the phone book. RANKIN: You know, I spent years explaining to people, and then not that long ago - just a few years ago - I actually met a guy called Joel Rebus who lives in Edinburgh, and he said, I thought you got the name out of the phone book. And I thought, oh, what a clever thing to call him, you know? Because in the first book, he is actually being sent picture puzzles. And I wrote the first Rebus novel when I was in my early 20s and I was a postgraduate student of literature at the University of Edinburgh. And when I was a little kid, there was a Sunday newspaper we used to get in Scotland, and it had a page every Sunday of kids' puzzles including a rebus. RANKIN: As you pointed out, a rebus is a picture puzzle. He's very close to his colleague, Siobhan Clarke, but she's learned a lot of bad things from him and she's desperately trying to go it her own way and shrug him off. RANKIN: He's a solitary sort of character.
HANSEN: For those who have yet to read a Rebus mystery, describe him. Author Ian Rankin joins us now from the studios of member station KUHF in Houston, Texas.
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