Durch die Fähigkeit der Nacht, alles in die Länge zu ziehen, hatte sich der Alptraum über Matsch und Einsamkeit scheinbar über angsterregende, unvorstellbare Zeiten erstreckt und war erst mit dem Auftauchen schleimiger Wesen mit Beinen zu Ende gegangen, die aus dem schleimigen Meer gekrochen waren.
An edition of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
(1987)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
by Douglas Adams
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is the first ever fully realised Ghost—Horror—Detective—Whodunit— Time—Travel—Romantic—Musical— Comedy Epic.
Dirk Gently himself is a detective — well, a sort of detective.. There is a long and honourable tradition of great detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Dirk Gently, however, does not like to eliminate the impossible. He is far more interested in quantum mechanics, conjuring tricks and pizza than in fiddling around with fingerprint powder, and so his investigations tend to produce startling results.
A simple search for a missing cat reveals two ghosts, a dodo, an Electric Monk, the devastating secret that lies behind the whole of human history and threatens to bring it to a premature close, and, finally, the utterly terrifying reason why Richard MacDuff has had a sofa stuck on his stairs for three weeks.
Sadly, the cat dies.
--front flap
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Fantasy, Krimi, abiogenesis, laudanum, Kubla Khan, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, detective fiction, Mystery & Detective fiction, time travel, Modern & Contemporary Fiction, humour, Private investigators, Fiction, Science fiction, fantasy fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Humorous fiction, Mystery fiction, Dirk Gently (Fictitious character), English Fantasy fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, crime, Gently, dirk (fictitious character), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, University of Cambridge, English literature, Fiction, fantasy, generalPeople
Dirk Gently, Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard MacDuff, Urban Chronotis, Gordon Way, Susan Way, Electric Monk, Michael Wenton-Weakes, Samuel Taylor ColeridgeShowing 8 featured editions. View all 36 editions?
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Der Elektrische Mönch: Dirk Gently's Holistische Detektei
2005, Heyne
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in German
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
2002, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- First Pocket Books Printing (18)
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L'investigatore olistico Dirk Gently
1996-02, Feltrinelli
paperback
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- Prima edizione ne "I Canguri"
8807700735 9788807700736
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
1988-05, Pocket Books
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
1988-05, Pocket Books
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
1988-05, Pocket Books
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
1987, Simon and Schuster
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
1987, Heinemann
Hardcover
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Zitat Klappentext: Eine mordsmäßige Detektiv-Gespenster-Horror-Kriminal-Zeitreisen-Romanzen-Musikkomödien-Geschichte von Douglas Adams, dem Autor des Bestsellers »Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis«.
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Page 175,
added anonymously.
»Die Schwerkraft«, sagte Dirk mit einem leicht herablassenden Schulterzucken, »ja, die gab´s sicherlich auch noch. Obwohl das natürlich bloß eine Entdekcung war. Sie war schon da und mußte nur entdeckt werden.«
Er nahm einen Penny aus seiner Tasche warf ihn nachlässig zu den Kieselsteinen hinüber, die an dem gepflasterten Weg lagen. »Siehst du?« sagter er. »Sie schalten sie auch am Wochenende nicht ab.[«]
Er nahm einen Penny aus seiner Tasche warf ihn nachlässig zu den Kieselsteinen hinüber, die an dem gepflasterten Weg lagen. »Siehst du?« sagter er. »Sie schalten sie auch am Wochenende nicht ab.[«]
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Dem Elektrischen Mönch war ungeheuer wohl zumute, und er fiel in einen schwungvollen Galopp. Das heißt, er spornte sein Pferd schwungvoll zu einem Galopp an, und sein Pferd feil schwunglos in denselben.
Page 218,
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This time there would be no witnesses.
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