Dirk Gently · Book 1
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- Published
- 1 January 1987
- Pages
- 250
- ISBN-13
- 9780330514187
- Type
- novel
About this book
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) introduces Douglas Adams's self-proclaimed holistic detective at 250 pages, reworking unused material Adams had originally written for Doctor Who.
Its place in Dirk Gently
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is book 1 in the Dirk Gently series. It is followed by The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. See the full Dirk Gently reading order.
Dirk Gently is a self-proclaimed 'holistic' private detective who believes in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, which in practice means he investigates cases by following whatever coincidence catches his attention rather than conventional deduction -- a structure that let Douglas Adams fold time travel, ghosts, a reconstructed sofa stuck on a staircase, and (in the first novel) an alien warrior race's mistaken visit to prehistoric Earth into ostensibly straightforward English mystery plots. Dirk…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780330514187