WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR POST QUOTE - SMALL SIZE SOFT COVER EDITIONDead Souls is a 1999 crime novel by Ian Rankin that features Inspector Rebus. The title refers both to Joy Division's song "Dead Souls" and to the 1842 Nikolai Gogol novel Dead Souls; quotes from the latter appear at the beginnings of the two divisions of the book. The novel won the French Grand Prix de Litt?rature Polici?re upon its publication there in 2004.