Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Douglas Adams

Pocket Books, Jun 1, 1991 - Fiction - 320 pages

There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently's bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.

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User Review  - albertgoldfain - www.librarything.com

Some nice variations on the "everything is connected" motif and definitely hilarious at points, but the zany convoluted plot undercuts both the detective and time travel efforts Adams started.

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User Review  - EmScape - LibraryThing

I decided to re-read this after having watched the BBC show of the same name, and while my memory of the book was spotty, I was struck fully in the face by how very different book-Dirk is from TV-Dirk ...

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 4
• Section 3: 9

About the author

Douglas Adams Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, England in 1952. He has written for radio, television and theater and has worked as a hospital reporter, barn builder, radio producer, and script editor. His bestsellers include The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
• Author: Douglas Adams
• Edition: reissue
• Publisher: Pocket Books, 1991
• Original from: Pennsylvania State University
• Digitized: Oct 12, 2010
• ISBN: 0671746723, 9780671746728
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators; Fiction / Science Fiction / General