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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

by Douglas Adams

A detective case with time-travel consequences

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A detective case with time-travel consequences

Dirk Gently’s investigation begins with a ghost whose presence reaches far beyond a single mystery. The case connects a death millions of years in the past to an attempt to alter events through time, with consequences for the modern world. The novel brings together detective fiction, ghosts and science-fiction speculation, while its agency’s promise to solve “the whole crime” hints at the unusually wide scope of Gently’s work. The central question is not simply what happened, but what might follow if the past is changed.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in detective stories that incorporate ghosts and time travel.
  • For science-fiction readers drawn to mysteries with consequences spanning different eras.
  • For readers familiar with Douglas Adams’s fiction who want another of his novels.

Themes

Detective work and investigationGhostsTime travelChanging the past and its consequences

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Book overview

From Douglas Adams, the legendary author of one of the most beloved science fiction classics of all time, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, comes a wildly inventive novel of ghosts, time travel, and one detective's mission to save humanity from extinction.DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY We solve the whole crime. We find the whole person. Phone today for the whole solution to your problem. (Missing cats and messy divorces a specialty) In this novel from the legendary Douglas Adams, quirky and bumbling Private Investigator Dirk Gently stumbles upon a million-year-old ghost, wandering the earth and disturbing all its people. What he uncovers is the ghost's desperate plot to go back in time to prevent its own death. But this ghost was no ordinary person, and helping it save itself just might change the modern world as we know it. And not in a good way.
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