Skulduggery Pleasant: The Maleficent Seven
- Published
- 28 March 2013
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9780007500925
- Type
- novel
About this book
Skulduggery Pleasant: The Maleficent Seven is one of the series' standalone spinoffs, slotting into the timeline right after Last Stand of Dead Men and just before The Dying of the Light. Published March 2013 at 368 pages, it's genuinely optional reading rather than required for the main plot.
Key facts about Skulduggery Pleasant: The Maleficent Seven
Skulduggery Pleasant: The Maleficent Seven is a novel by Derek Landy. Readers have had it since 28 March 2013. It runs to 368 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Skulduggery Pleasant: The Maleficent Seven. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007500925 to find the main one.
Skulduggery Pleasant: The Maleficent Seven is book 9 of 25 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series. The series has 25 published books. However, the series starts with Skulduggery Pleasant (2007). 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: The Maleficent Seven is book 9 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series. It follows Last Stand of Dead Men. It is followed by The Dying of the Light. 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 9780007500925