3.5 

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

By Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams digital book - Fable

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From Douglas Adams, the legendary author of one of the most beloved science fiction classics of all time, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, comes a wildly inventive novel of ghosts, time travel, and one detective’s mission to save humanity from extinction.

DIRK GENTLY’S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY
We solve the whole crime.
We find the whole person.
Phone today for the whole solution to your problem.
(Missing cats and messy divorces a specialty)


In this novel from the legendary Douglas Adams, quirky and bumbling Private Investigator Dirk Gently stumbles upon a million-year-old ghost, wandering the earth and disturbing all its people. What he uncovers is the ghost’s desperate plot to go back in time to prevent its own death. But this ghost was no ordinary person, and helping it save itself just might change the modern world as we know it. And not in a good way.

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3.5
“It’s that signature dry weirdness of Douglas Adams. If you like the Hitchhiker’s Guide books and thought, “But what if this was a detective mystery?” Then this is the book for you.”

About Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams, a legend of imaginative fiction, ushered in the advent of comedic science fiction with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The book developed into a hugely successful series of five novels. The Dirk Gently series—Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul—helped cement Adams as one of the most successful and beloved authors in science fiction.

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