Sleuth of Baker Street will have a brief visit from author Ian Rankin for one hour on Wednesday, October 26. That’s at 907 Millwood Road from 4:30 to 5:30pm. Then he’ll be off to other appointments. All fans of this popular mystery writer are invited. Sleuth notes that the shop is normally not open Wednesdays, but, will be from 3.00 pm that day. Mr. Rankin will be autographing copies of his new Malcolm Fox novel, The Impossible Dead ($34.99 Orion hardcover, $24.99 Orion trade paperback). This is said to be a terrific sequel to the equally terrific The Complaints ($10.99). Here is Rankin talking to the BBC about how he became disciplined enough to write novels.