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An edition of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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  • ★★★★ 4.0 (38 ratings)
  • 219 Want to read
  • 11 Currently reading
  • 71 Have read

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is the first ever fully realised Ghost—Horror—Detective—Whodunit— Time—Travel—Romantic—Musical— Comedy Epic.

Dirk Gently himself is a detective — well, a sort of detective.. There is a long and honourable tradition of great detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Dirk Gently, however, does not like to eliminate the impossible. He is far more interested in quantum mechanics, conjuring tricks and pizza than in fiddling around with fingerprint powder, and so his investigations tend to produce startling results.

A simple search for a missing cat reveals two ghosts, a dodo, an Electric Monk, the devastating secret that lies behind the whole of human history and threatens to bring it to a premature close, and, finally, the utterly terrifying reason why Richard MacDuff has had a sofa stuck on his stairs for three weeks.

Sadly, the cat dies.
--front flap

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Heinemann
Language
English
Pages
247

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Fantasy Krimi abiogenesis laudanum Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner detective fiction Mystery & Detective fiction time travel Modern & Contemporary Fiction humour Private investigators Fiction Science fiction fantasy fiction Detective and mystery fiction Humorous fiction Mystery fiction Dirk Gently (Fictitious character) English Fantasy fiction Fiction, mystery & detective, general Fiction, crime Gently, dirk (fictitious character), fiction Private investigators, fiction University of Cambridge English literature Fiction, fantasy, general

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Dirk Gently Johann Sebastian Bach Richard MacDuff Urban Chronotis Gordon Way Susan Way Electric Monk Michael Wenton-Weakes Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Cambridge (England) University of Cambridge Cambridge England St Cedd's College London Earth Porlock

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Four billion years in Earth's past 19th century 20th century

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Der Elektrische Mönch: Dirk Gently's Holistische Detektei
2005, Heyne
Paperback in German
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
2002, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - First Pocket Books Printing (18)
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L'investigatore olistico Dirk Gently
1996-02, Feltrinelli
paperback in Italian - Prima edizione ne "I Canguri"
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
1988-05, Pocket Books
Paperback in English - Fourth Printing
Cover of: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
1988-05, Pocket Books
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
1988-05, Pocket Books
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
1987, Simon and Schuster
Hardcover in English - 1st printing
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
1987, Heinemann
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Published in
London
Copyright Date
1987

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6051.D3352, PR6051.D3352 D5 1987, PZ4.A642 D57 1987b

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
247p.
Number of pages
247

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17415201M
ISBN 10
0434009008
ISBN 13
9780434009008
LCCN
87009464
OCLC/WorldCat
924640454
LibraryThing
5321435
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
242345

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Work ID
OL2163628W

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Work Description

Zitat Klappentext: Eine mordsmäßige Detektiv-Gespenster-Horror-Kriminal-Zeitreisen-Romanzen-Musikkomödien-Geschichte von Douglas Adams, dem Autor des Bestsellers »Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis«.

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Durch die Fähigkeit der Nacht, alles in die Länge zu ziehen, hatte sich der Alptraum über Matsch und Einsamkeit scheinbar über angsterregende, unvorstellbare Zeiten erstreckt und war erst mit dem Auftauchen schleimiger Wesen mit Beinen zu Ende gegangen, die aus dem schleimigen Meer gekrochen waren.
Page 175, added anonymously.
»Die Schwerkraft«, sagte Dirk mit einem leicht herablassenden Schulterzucken, »ja, die gab´s sicherlich auch noch. Obwohl das natürlich bloß eine Entdekcung war. Sie war schon da und mußte nur entdeckt werden.«
Er nahm einen Penny aus seiner Tasche warf ihn nachlässig zu den Kieselsteinen hinüber, die an dem gepflasterten Weg lagen. »Siehst du?« sagter er. »Sie schalten sie auch am Wochenende nicht ab.[«]
added anonymously.
Dem Elektrischen Mönch war ungeheuer wohl zumute, und er fiel in einen schwungvollen Galopp. Das heißt, er spornte sein Pferd schwungvoll zu einem Galopp an, und sein Pferd feil schwunglos in denselben.
Page 218, added anonymously.
This time there would be no witnesses.
added anonymously.

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