Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

No cover — Douglas Adams: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (AudiobookFormat, 1993, Simon & Schuster Audio)

Audio Cassette

English language

Published June 1, 1993 by Simon & Schuster Audio.

ISBN:: 978-0-671-88144-3

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by English writer Douglas Adams, first published in 1987. It is described by the author 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. The only recurring major characters are the eponymous Dirk Gently, his secretary Janice Pearce and Sergeant Gilks. Adams also began work on another novel, The Salmon of Doubt, with the intention of publishing it as the third book in the series, but died before completing it.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by English writer Douglas Adams, first published in 1987. It is described by the author 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. The only recurring major characters are the eponymous Dirk Gently, his secretary Janice Pearce and Sergeant Gilks. Adams also began work on another novel, The Salmon of Doubt, with the intention of publishing it as the third book in the series, but died before completing it.

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ospalh reviewed Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently, #1)

Hilarious and brilliantly convoluted

5 stars

About as funny as the Hitchhiker books. As convoluted as your typical British whodunit, but with two major plot elements that i still won’t mention here. With Coleridge poems, a monk on a horse, computers (in the late 1980s) and dons at Cambridge. Aged quite well.

Paranoid Fish reviewed Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently, #1)

You should read this twice

4 stars

Content warning Mild Spoiler about the story's origin

This was fun. Once I found out, that the storyline was derived from a Doctor Who Episode Adams had written, I couldn't get the fact off my mind again. Nevertheless, it's a very accomplished storyline, perhaps a bit too complex an fast-paced in the end, because when I had finished it, I wasn't able to tie up all the loose ends without consulting a summary. A book you best read twice.

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Fiction / Fantasy / General