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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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Author: Douglas Adams

This darkly satirical sf mystery is somewhat of a departure from Douglas Adams's internationally bes...
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ISBN-10: 1590070593
ISBN-13: 9781590070598
Feb 2002
Publisher: New Millenium Audio
Abridged
Language: English
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This darkly satirical sf mystery is somewhat of a departure from Douglas Adams's internationally bestselling HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY series. Richard MacDuff, a bemused computer programmer, is propelled into a series of mysterious but inextricably interconnected events, involving the odd behavior of an extremely absentminded Cambridge professor, the senseless murder of his boss, the true meaning of Coleridge's two most famous poems, and a horse stuck in a bathroom. Only Richard's old college friend Dirk Gently, a somewhat shady, possibly psychic, and perennially underemployed PI, can trace the pattern to its source: an ancient ghost searching for a hidden time machine. Although DIRK GENTLY has never reached the same popularity as the HITCHHIKER'S books, it has a certain cult classic status. Fans of the British television series DOCTOR WHO will find DIRK GENTLY of interest, as it borrows plot elements from two scripts that Douglas Adams wrote for the series: "City of Death" and "Shada" (the filming of the latter was never completed due to a labor dispute). DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY was followed by a second Dirk book, THE LONG DARK TEATIME OF THE SOUL. A third book in the series, THE SALMON OF DOUBT, was incomplete at the time of Adams's death; the work-in-progress, along with some of Adams's collected writings, was published in 2002.

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Height:7.0 in
Width:4.5 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:6.4 oz

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First Line: "This time there would be no witnesses.<BR>This time there was just the dead earth, a rumble of thunder, and the onset of that interminable light drizzle from the northeast by which so many of the world's momentous events seem to be accompanied."


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Other Editions

Paperback, 1998 - $0.75 Save 90%
Audio, 1997 - $7.75 Save 69%
Hardcover, 1987 - $0.75 Save 94%
Audio, 1987 - $3.77 Save 76%
Audio, 2001 - $149.95
Hardcover, 1987 - $1.58 Save 68%
Hardcover, 1991 - $17.36

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