Book description
What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes
the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 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-whodunnit-time
travel-romantic-musical-comedy epic.' The author Douglas Adams
created all the various and contradictory manifestations of
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and
bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron
of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International.
Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and
daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara,
California, where he died suddenly in 2001. After Douglas died the movie
of Hitchhiker
moved out of development hell into the clear uplands of production,
using much of Douglas' original script and ideas. Douglas shares the
writing credit for the movie with Karey Kirkpatrick.
