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.
Key facts about Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1987. The book has 250 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780330514187 to find the main one.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is book 1 of 3 in the Dirk Gently series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Douglas Adams writes The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a separate series. Those series sit on our science fiction shelf. Meanwhile, The Salmon of Doubt is the latest published Douglas Adams book on file, from 2002.
About Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) was an English writer and humorist whose The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy became one of the most influential comic science fiction works of the twentieth century. See every Douglas Adams book in order.
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