Sir Ian Rankin has told how one of Edinburgh's most notorious double murder cases brought the capital's dark past into stark reality for him as a young student in the city.
The brutal murder of teens Christine Eadie and Helen Scott horrified the country and for a young Sir Ian Rankin the crimes uncovered more of the capital's nasty history that had previously gone unnoticed.
The acclaimed crime writer was 17 years old and about to start studying English literature at Edinburgh University in 1977 when the World's End murders shook the capital report the Scottish Express.
