An astonishing comic writerRich and endlessly entertainingA pleasure to readFew recent writers have had such an infectious prose style as Adams. With his fondness for paradox, his galactic perspective on things and his wonderful way with meaningful nonsense his are the books which have launched a trillion quipsDouglas Adams' 'thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic' and beloved cult classic.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is a much-loved cult classic, that has spawned radio dramas, television, theatre and comic book adaptations across the globe.
What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over two hundred years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common?
Apparently not much; until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery, and eating a lot of pizza – not to mention saving the entire human race from extinction along the way (at no extra charge).
To find out more, read this book (better still, buy it then read it) – or contact Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
'A thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic' - Douglas Adams.
Continue this surreal series with The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul and the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt.
Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001.Douglas Adams’
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is undeniably a cult classic. It is also, in the immortal words of the author himself, a ‘thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic’. You don’t get much more holistic than that. Along with the equally surreal sequel,
The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, (which co-stars Thor, God of Thunder, God of Rain, God of the High Towering Clouds, God of – you get the picture) Douglas Adams’ answer to Sherlock Holmes has perplexed and delighted readers for decades. Fans of Terry Pratchett, Jasper Fforde, PG Wodehouse and of course the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series will revel in the warmth and whimsical humour of these novels – which have spawned not one, but two TV series.
