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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- Author
- Douglas Adams
- Narrator
- Stephen Mangan
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 14 October 2021
- Run Time
- 7 hours 59 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Science fiction: time travel / time slip, Speculative fiction, Comical (humorous) crime and mystery, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Comic (humorous) fantasy, Humorous fiction, Fiction: mashup / crossover
- Rating
- 4.5 (2 reviews)
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What to expect
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is a much-loved cult classic, that has spawned radio dramas, television, theatre and comic book adaptations across the globe. This new audio edition is hilariously narrated by Stephen Mangan – star of Green Wing, Episodes, and the original Dirk Gently series on the BBC.
What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over two hundred 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 charge).
To find out more, read this book (better still, buy it then read it) – or contact Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
'A thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic' - Douglas Adams.
Continue this surreal series with The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul and the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt.
Critics Review
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Rich and endlessly entertaining
Stephen Mangan
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A pleasure to read
New York Times
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Few recent writers have had such an infectious prose style as Adams. With his fondness for paradox, his galactic perspective on things and his wonderful way with meaningful nonsense his are the books which have launched a trillion quips
Robert McFarlane
User Reviews
Book 4.5
Narration 4.5
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5.0 5.0
Good book for long roads, reindeer-approved.
Eriks Firmlys Holistic Norwegian Travel Agency 2022-06-29
Details
- Author
- Douglas Adams
- Narrator
- Stephen Mangan
- Duration
- 7 hours 59 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 October 2021
- ISBN
- 9781529076479
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Science fiction: time travel / time slip, Speculative fiction, Comical (humorous) crime and mystery, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Comic (humorous) fantasy, Humorous fiction, Fiction: mashup / crossover
- Rating
- 4.5(2 reviews)
- Narration
- 4.5(2 reviews)
Synopsis
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is a much-loved cult classic, that has spawned radio dramas, television, theatre and comic book adaptations across the globe. This new audio edition is hilariously narrated by Stephen Mangan – star of Green Wing, Episodes, and the original Dirk Gently series on the BBC. What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over two hundred 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 charge). To find out more, read this book (better still, buy it then read it) – or contact Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. 'A thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic' - Douglas Adams.Continue this surreal series with The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul and the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt.
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