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Skulduggery Pleasant

by Derek Landy
Published
3 April 2007
Pages
368
ISBN-13
9780061950834
Type
novel
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About this book

Skulduggery Pleasant opened the series in April 2007: twelve-year-old Stephanie Edgley inherits a strange house from her dead uncle and finds herself teamed up with a wisecracking, magic-wielding, reanimated skeleton detective, investigating a hidden magical Ireland of sorcerers and ancient evils. It runs 368 pages and is the first of the nine-book Phase I run.

Key facts about Skulduggery Pleasant

Skulduggery Pleasant is a novel by Derek Landy. Readers have had it since 3 April 2007. It runs to 368 pages.

Our list holds 2 editions of Skulduggery Pleasant. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780061950834 to find the main one.

Skulduggery Pleasant is book 1 of 25 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series. The series has 25 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. A Soul Full of Shadows is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 26 March 2026.

Additionally, Derek Landy writes Demon Road as a separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy and horror shelves. Meanwhile, A Soul Full of Shadows is the latest published Derek Landy book on file, from 26 March 2026.

About Derek Landy

Derek Landy is an Irish author and screenwriter, born in 1974 in Lusk, County Dublin, who worked on his family's vegetable farm and studied animation before breaking into film: he wrote the IFTA-winning Dead Bodies and the IFTA-nominated Boy Eats Girl, starring Samantha Mumba. See every Derek Landy book in order.

Its place in Skulduggery Pleasant

Skulduggery Pleasant is book 1 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series. It is followed by Playing with Fire. 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…

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