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Novels by Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Mostly Harmless, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, So Long
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-03.
ISBN 9781155376592
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Mostly Harmless, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, the Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, Life, the Universe and Everything, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Excerpt: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams , first published in 1987. It is described on its cover as a "thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic". The book was followed by a sequel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul , although the only recurring major characters are the eponymous Gently , his secretary Janice Pearce and Sergeant Gilks. Before his death, Adams also began work on another novel, The Salmon of Doubt with the intention of it being the third book in the series. A BBC Radio adaptation starring Harry Enfield was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on October 2007. A second series based on the sequel was broadcast on October 2008. Plot summary Dirk Gently 's plot is non-linear , partly because time travel is one of the main elements of the story. Four billion years in Earth's past, a group of Salaxalans attempts to populate the earth; however, a mistake by the laziness of their engineer causes their landing craft to explode, killing the Salaxalans but also generating the spark of energy needed to create amino acids and start the process of life on Earth . The ghost of the Salaxalan engineer remains, and haunts the earth until he can correct his mistake, forced to watch human life develop. In the early 1800s, the ghost discovers that Professor Reg Chronotis at St Cedd's owns a time machine, disguised as his chambers. The ghost, unable to inhabit Reg, in
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