"Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" - читать интересную книгу автора (Adams Douglas)Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams *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, selfstyled 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 mentioon 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-* *ROMANTIC-MUSICAL-COMEDY-EPIC'* *-The author* --------------------------------------------------------------- Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge in 1952. He was educated at Brentwood School in Essex, and St John's College Cambridge. He originally created The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a radio series for the BBC, and then wrote it again as a novel for Pan Books. He wrote three more Hitch Hiker novels: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, and So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish. Pan Books has also published The Original Hitch Hiker Radio Scripts. Since then Douglas Adams has written Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea- Time of the Soul. He has also co-written The Meaning of Liff with John Lloyd, and co-edited The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book with Peter Fincham. At the moment he is working on a wildlife travelogue - Last Chance to See...- with the zoologist Mark Carwardine, and planning two new novels. He is currently not certain where he lives, or with whom. Also by Douglas Adams in Pan Books |
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