Skulduggery Pleasant · Book 8
Last Stand of Dead Men
- Published
- 29 August 2013
- Pages
- 608
- ISBN-13
- 9780007489237
- Type
- novel
About this book
Last Stand of Dead Men (August 2013), 608 pages, is the eighth of the nine Phase I novels, positioned after Kingdom of the Wicked and just ahead of the standalone spinoff The Maleficent Seven, as the original run heads toward its close.
Its place in Skulduggery Pleasant
Last Stand of Dead Men is book 8 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series. It follows Kingdom of the Wicked. It is followed by Skulduggery Pleasant: The Maleficent Seven. See the full Skulduggery Pleasant reading order.
Twelve-year-old Stephanie Edgley inherits a strange house from her recently deceased uncle and finds herself teamed up with its previous tenant's oldest friend: a wisecracking, magic-wielding, reanimated skeleton detective named Skulduggery Pleasant. Together they investigate a hidden magical Ireland full of sorcerers, monsters, and ancient evils, and Stephanie - who takes the name Valkyrie Cain - trains up from tag-along to genuine magical powerhouse across a saga that keeps escalating in scale and body count as…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007489206
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007489237