Dirk Gently · Book 3
The Salmon of Doubt
- Published
- 1 January 2002
- Pages
- 299
- ISBN-13
- 9780787104016
- Type
- collection
About this book
The Salmon of Doubt (2002) is not a finished third novel but a 299-page posthumous collection of Adams's unfinished draft chapters, essays and other writings, assembled by his friends and editors after his death in 2001.
Its place in Dirk Gently
The Salmon of Doubt is book 3 in the Dirk Gently series. It follows 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 9780787104016