Rebus: 'Dead Souls' by Ian Rankin Quiz

Answer: The zoo

Rebus and other officers were trying to catch someone who was poisoning the animals. The long vigil turned into a chase when Rebus spotted a criminal face from the past and it ended with both men in the sea lions' pool. While Rebus was distracted with an innocent man, the real poisoner struck.

Answer: They all faced away from Watson

The photographs showed Watson's children and grandchildren at increasing ages. They were gifts passed on to Watson and he felt it necessary to display them. Rebus felt the intention was to show Watson as a man of rectitude who had achieved something in his life. They had little humanising effect, Rebus thought; rather they had all the ease of crime exhibits.

Answer: He committed suicide

Jim Margolies had seemed to have it all, Rebus thought, promising career, handsome family and lots of friends. No one knew why he threw himself to his death from Salisbury Crags. His wife had convinced herself he had not jumped, but had stumbled and fallen.

Answer: Barney, from "The Flintstones"

Rebus remembered Mee as a useful footballer with prominent teeth, a freckled nose and a kitchen-stool haircut. Now grown but still living in Fife, his son Damon had gone missing from an Edinburgh nightclub. Because he was 19 and therefore able to make his own decisions, the police, officially, did not seem interested. Rebus agreed to make some enquiries.

Answer: Six

Oakes had kept himself fit, and knowledgeable about the outside world during his 15 years in jail. The authorities had pinned two murders on him. He told his lawyer it was "six actually. But who's counting"? When told he was being deported to Edinburgh, Oakes was not too worried; he had unfinished business there.

Answer: Child abuse

The men had been employed at a church-run children's home. It had operated from the 1930s and over the years stories of physical, mental, and sexual abuse had emerged. A survivors' group had succeeded in highlighting the issues and securing a police investigation. Two former staff members faced charges ranging from assault to sodomy. Rebus's involvement in the case had been minimal and he could not understand why he had been called. In the witness box he found out why - when he was ambushed by the defence lawyer over his antics at the zoo.

Answer: A Bible and a dictionary

Rebus noted that both looked well-used. Oakes was signed up by a journalist, Jim Stevens, for an exclusive interview. He told Stevens: "Bible'll teach you a lot of things. I got my first taste in prison. Time was, I'd no time for the Good Book."

Answer: Alan Archibald

Archibald was a detective, since retired. Seventeen years before, he had been acquainted with an investigation in Edinburgh into the death of a teenage girl. It had the hallmarks of Oakes's work and Archibald had communicated with the killer, probably hoping he would confess to killing the girl.

They met on the killer's return to Edinburgh. Archibald had a personal link to the Edinburgh killing. To find out what that was, you'll have to read the book.

Answer: The Beatles

The Beatles were, of course, a guitar band, but Billy Preston played keyboards on their recordings. Preston also played with the Rolling Stones.

Answer: Judge

Amanda Petrie was the daughter of Lord Justice Petrie. She ran with a wild, and rich crowd. Many of the parties she organised had a fancy dress theme, and they were loud and disruptive. She was close to her brother, who frequently also attended the parties.

Answer: Darren Rough

Rough was a convicted child abuser who had himself been abused as a child. Police had wanted him handy to give evidence against two child home employees.
Rebus had struggled with Rough at the zoo and had leaked his whereabouts to the Press. A lynch mob gathered at Rough's apartment, to be dispersed by Rebus, among others. Initially Rebus had been repulsed by what Rough had been, but he eventually felt sorry for the young man and helped him.

Answer: Priest

Fr Conor Leary was a confidante, if not quite a confessor, of Rebus. He heard an allegation that Leary had visited a children's home where the young boys had been abused. One boy suggested that an abuser had worn a priest's clothing.

Answer: A beauty contest for pre-teen girls

The girls and their mothers - probably more so the mothers - took it all very seriously. "It's like a dog show," Rebus's companion whispered to him. Rebus noted make-up applied to faces not ready for it; it made the girls look like clowns. Among the girls was the daughter of the dead detective.

Answer: The Rolling Stones

Visiting Rebus's flat, Janice found where she had written 'JLJ' - Janice Loves Johnny - on the sleeve many years before. Rebus had not been pleased.

Answer: Cary Oakes

Cary Oakes, the ex-jailbird killer, had shown an obsession with John Rebus. He visited Rebus's flat and burgled that of Rebus's lover. Oakes also visited the town where Rebus had been brought up. Rebus had half-expected that, but thought Oates would have gone after his school friends.

Answer: The Pentland Hills

The retired detective, Alan Archibald, was convinced that the killer, Cary Oakes, had murdered the girl. Oakes was playing games with the detectives and had more murder in mind. His plans, though, were foiled, and he had to make a run for it to escape from the police.

Answer: An old folks' home

Oakes blamed his uncle for making him what he was, a psychopath. His uncle, though, claimed Oakes was already a bad one when he first arrived to live with him as a boy. He had used violence on Oakes, to no avail. When he had heard Oakes had been arrested in America, his view was that he should have been sent to the electric chair. John Rebus's view was that the uncle, now in an old folks' home, had been, and remained, rotten to the core.

Answer: A relative of the detective was implicated in the abuse

Dr Joseph Margolies was the father of the detective. Part of his duties as a GP had been to look after the health and welfare of the boys. He had ignored their complaints of abuse and had abused Darren Rough.

Answer: A carving knife

Cary Oakes had escaped from the police hunt on the Pentland Hills. He had broken into Rebus's flat and stolen his phones. He then taunted Rebus to following him through the streets of Edinburgh. When they fought, Oakes cut Rebus with a knife, but Rebus propelled him into the path of a speeding car and he was knocked down.

Answer: He had been knocked into the water after a fight on a boat

Damon Mee had gone to a nightclub in Edinburgh with friends. There an attractive looking blonde woman picked him up. They had gone to a party on a boat where, to his horror, Damon found the blonde was a man in drag. On deck he had started to attack the blonde, but was struck over the head and knocked into the harbour by the blonde's sister.