Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by English writer Douglas Adams, published in 1987. It is described by the author on its cover as a "thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic". The book was followed by a sequel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. The recurring …
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by English writer Douglas Adams, published in 1987. It is described by the author on its cover as a "thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic". The book was followed by a sequel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. The recurring major characters are the eponymous Dirk Gently, his secretary Janice Pearce and Sergeant Gilks. Adams began work on another novel, The Salmon of Doubt, with the intention of publishing it as the third book in the series, but died before completing it. A BBC Radio 4 adaptation of six episodes was broadcast from October 2007. A second series based on the sequel was broadcast from October 2008. A 2010 television adaptation for BBC Four borrowed some of the characters and some minor plot elements of the novel to create a new story, and a 2016 television adaptation for BBC America served as a continuation of the books.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 5321435
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Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency
Hardcover, 247 pages
English language
Published Nov. 3, 1987 by Heinemann.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-434-00900-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 924640454
Dirk Gently's Holistische Detektei
mass market paperback, 223 pages
German language
Published Nov. 3, 1990 by Ullstein.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-548-22231-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 75117075
- Goodreads:
- 2337198
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Paperback, 272 pages
English language
Published Oct. 7, 2014 by Gallery Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4767-8299-7Copied ISBN!
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
English language
Published Nov. 3, 2012 by Pan Macmillan.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4472-2109-8Copied ISBN!
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
English language
Published Nov. 3, 1987
- ISBN:
- 978-0-671-65769-7Copied ISBN!
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
English language
Published Nov. 3, 1987
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7737-2100-5Copied ISBN!
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
306 pages
Published Nov. 3, 2002
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