Douglas Adams. (1987). Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Abridged Simon & Schuster Audio.

Douglas Adams. 1987. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Simon & Schuster Audio.

Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Simon & Schuster Audio, 1987.

Douglas Adams. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Abridged Simon & Schuster Audio, 1987.

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From Douglas Adams, the legendary author of one of the most beloved science fiction novels of all time, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, comes a wildly inventive novel of ghosts, time travel, and one detective's mission to save humanity from extinction.
DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY
We solve the whole crime
We find the whole person
Phone today for the whole solution to your problem
(Missing cats and messy divorces a specialty)

Douglas Adams, the "master of wacky words and even wackier tales" (Entertainment Weekly) once again boggles the mind with a completely unbelievable story of ghosts, time travel, eccentric computer geniuses, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the end of the world, and—of course—missing cats.

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   • content: Douglas Adams is the inspired maniac who created the BBC's cult classic "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and who wrote many of the wittiest episodes of "Dr. Who." In this hilarious novel, he continues the same combination of satire, pure silliness, paradox and ersatz New Age cosmology. As a reader, he benefits from a pleasant, expressive voice and an authentic appreciation of the author's (i.e., his own) overtones. Most listeners will forgive his lack of comic timing, which derails some of his jokes, for the ones that survive will delight the silly savants for whom he writes. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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   • content: Like the author's classic HITCHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, this zany novel imaginatively combines science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and trendy philosophy into a risible and thought-provoking brew. Unlike HITCHHIKER, which Adams first cast as a serialized audio play and then novelized, GENTLY first appeared as a novel, which noted British writer/producer Dirk Maggs has dramatized for audio. It concerns the first important case of "holistic" gumshoe Dirk Gently, who encounters time-travel, space aliens, ghosts, an electric monk, and poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, among other weirdnesses, as he and his cohorts save humanity from oblivion. Maggs has deftly restructured the book for dramatic purposes and paced it to keep the listener ever alert to the abrupt, lightening-fast transitions. Sound, music, and voices are expertly textured. Y.R. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY
We solve the whole crime
We find the whole person
Phone today for the whole solution to your problem
(Missing cats and messy divorces a specialty)

Douglas Adams, the "master of wacky words and even wackier tales" (Entertainment Weekly) once again boggles the mind with a completely unbelievable story of ghosts, time travel, eccentric computer geniuses, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the end of the world, and—of course—missing cats.

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