Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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Simon and Schuster, Feb 26, 2013 - Fiction - 320 pages
From Douglas Adams, the legendary author of one of the most beloved science fiction novels 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)

Douglas Adams, the “master of wacky words and even wackier tales” (Entertainment Weekly) once again boggles the mind with a completely unbelievable story of ghosts, time travel, eccentric computer geniuses, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the end of the world, and—of course—missing cats.
 

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Section 1
1
Section 2
4
Section 3
8
Section 4
10
Section 5
32
Section 6
38
Section 7
47
Section 8
53
Section 20
157
Section 21
166
Section 22
178
Section 23
180
Section 24
184
Section 25
195
Section 26
205
Section 27
208

Section 9
67
Section 10
73
Section 11
77
Section 12
81
Section 13
89
Section 14
91
Section 15
108
Section 16
114
Section 17
134
Section 18
139
Section 19
148
Section 28
215
Section 29
220
Section 30
227
Section 31
232
Section 32
238
Section 33
242
Section 34
247
Section 35
252
Section 36
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Douglas Adams, a legend of imaginative fiction, ushered in the advent of comedic science fiction with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The book developed into a hugely successful series of five novels. The Dirk Gently series—Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul—helped cement Adams as one of the most successful and beloved authors in science fiction.

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