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An edition of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

First Pocket Books Printing (4)

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  • ★★★★ 4.0 (33 ratings) ·
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There is a long tradition of Great Detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time-traveller, AND the devastating secret of humankind!
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Pocket Books
Language
English
Pages
306

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Subjects

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, general

People

Dirk Gently, Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard MacDuff, Urban Chronotis, Gordon Way, Susan Way, Electric Monk, Michael Wenton-Weakes, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Places

Cambridge (England), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, St Cedd's College, London, Earth, Porlock

Times

Four billion years in Earth's past, 19th century, 20th century

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Cover of: Der Elektrische Mönch
Der Elektrische Mönch: Dirk Gently's Holistische Detektei
2005, Heyne
Paperback in German
Cover of: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
2002, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - First Pocket Books Printing (18)
Cover of: L'investigatore olistico Dirk Gently
L'investigatore olistico Dirk Gently
1996-02, Feltrinelli
paperback in Italian - Prima edizione ne "I Canguri"
Cover of: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
1988-05, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - First Pocket Books Printing (4)
Cover of: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
1988-05, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - First Pocket Books Printing (1)
Cover of: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
1988-05, Pocket Books
Paperback in English - Fourth Printing
Cover of: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
1987, Simon and Schuster
Hardcover in English - 1st printing
Cover of: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
1987, Heinemann
Hardcover in English

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Edition Notes

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, ℗♭1987.

Published in
New York
Series
Dirk Gently, #1
Copyright Date
1987

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR6051.D3352 D5 1987b

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Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
306 pages ;
Number of pages
306

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26339588M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780671692674
ISBN 10
0671692674
ISBN 13
9780671692674
OCLC/WorldCat
320855177, 894825812
Goodreads
44231342

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Work Description

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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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.
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.[«]
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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, added anonymously.
This time there would be no witnesses.
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