Allan Guthrie & Ian Rankin & Louise Welsh
A special series of three Bridge Readings to tie-in with Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature’s first city-wide reading campaign celebrating Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped.
Chaired by Eric Massie
A panel of literary experts discussed the influence of Stevenson’s gothic and criminal themes in Scottish literature. Three of Scotland’s best crime writers, Allan Guthrie, Ian Rankin and Louise Welsh, discussed the notion of the Tartan Noir genre and the ‘Stevenson effect’.
Thursday 1 February 2007
MacDonald Road Library, Edinburgh






