Dean Bridge was featured in Ian Rankin's fictional book Strip Jack, in which a woman is found dead in the river underneath the bridge.
It is not obvious why Ian Rankin chose Margulies as the name of an old Scottish Christian family in his novel Dead Souls.
in 2013, he played the role of Alfred Chalmers in Ian Rankin's debut play Dark Road.
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Gayfield Square Police station, which is featured in the Inspector Rebus stories written by Edinburgh-based writer Ian Rankin, is located on Gayfield Square in the south east of Broughton.
The hall also provides a focal point for the annual "Word" festival, a highly successful literary festival drawing famous authors such as Louis de Bernières, Ian Rankin and Adriana Trigiani.
:Profiles range from best-selling authors, including Michael Connelly, Sara Paretsky, Dennis Lehane, Laurie R. King, Ian Rankin, Charlaine Harris, and Lee Child, to the up-and-coming such as Lisa Lutz, Michael Koryta, Stefanie Pintoff, James R. Benn, and G.M. Malliet.
He is known for starring as Inspector Rebus in the BBC Radio 4 dramatizations of the Ian Rankin "Rebus" mystery novels and for his supporting roles in films Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Titanic and television series Doctor Who and Game of Thrones.
The first festival included some well known Scottish writers, as well as up and coming authors from around the world, including Ali Smith, Ian Rankin, Douglas Dunn, A. L. Kennedy, Kapka Kassabova, Ronan Sheehan, Rajorshi Chakraborti, Dilys Rose, Dean Parkin, Robert Alan Jamieson, Owen Dudley Edwards, and many others.
Names appearing at the Festival included Nobel laureate Alasdair Gray, Alexander McCall Smith, Louis de Bernières, Seamus Heaney, Ian Rankin, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Lionel Shriver, and Irvine Welsh, as well as a packed series of events for young readers.
BBC Radio has also broadcast abridged readings of Ian Rankin's "Rebus" novels, including Let It Bleed read by Alexander Morton, Death Is Not the End read by Douglas Henshall and Beggar's Banquet read by James MacPherson.
The Oxford Bar, a pub on Edinburgh's Young Street which features in Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels