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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Dirk Gently #1 / 2
by Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently #1) by Douglas Adams
  ★ 6.94 / 108

What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common?

Apparently not much; until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery, and eating a lot of pizza – not to mention saving the entire human race from extinction along the way (at no extra cost).

To find out more, read this book (better still, buy it then read it) – or contact Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

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Updated January 18, 2017
Category: Science Fiction, Humor
Release date: 1987
Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) was an English author and dramatist. He is best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a ”trilogy” of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime).

His other written works include the Dirk Gently novels, and he co-wrote two Liff books and Last Chance to See, itself based on a radio series. A posthumous collection of essays and other material, including an incomplete novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.

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His fans and friends knew Adams a lover of cameras, the Macintosh computer, and other ”techno gizmos”. Adams was a keen technologist, writing about such topics as e-mail and Usenet before they became widely known. Adams was also known as an environmental activist and atheist. Toward the end of his life Adams was a sought-after lecturer on topics including technology and the environment. The biologist Richard Dawkins dedicated his book The God Delusion to Douglas Adams and in it described how Adams came to understand evolution.

Photo: Michael Hughes. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Dirk Gently

Dirk Gently consists of two works. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently #1)
  ★ 6.94 / 108
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently #2)
  ★ 6.72 / 123


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