Series
Dirk Gently
Douglas Adams · 2 novels · 1 novella · 1987–2002
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) introduces Douglas Adams's eccentric investigator, whose approach treats all events and objects as ultimately connected however implausibly, as a case involving time travel, a ghost, and a Cambridge murder tangles into one plot. Adams completed one further full novel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), before his death; The Salmon of Doubt (2002) later collected his unfinished notes toward a third book alongside essays and other writing, rather than completing the story.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Dirk Gently at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s2
- 1990s0
- 2000s1
Shape
2 novels · 1 novella
1 author · completed series
reads like:humorgodsbritish islescontemporaryfunnyadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Salmon of Doubtdarkest · calmest
- The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soulbrightest · most intense