The long dark tea-time of the soul

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Douglas Adams: The long dark tea-time of the soul (1988, Simon and Schuster)

211 pages

English language

Published Aug. 13, 1988 by Simon and Schuster.

OCLC Number:
19885079

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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams. It is the second book by Adams featuring private detective Dirk Gently, the first being Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. It was followed by the Salmon of Doubt, an incomplete Dirk Gently novel included in a posthumous collection of the same name. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul has been adapted for radio, and several plot lines appear in the 2010 BBC TV series.

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Holistic detective Dirk Gently has a new client who believes he is being followed by a monster with a contract due soon. Dirk takes the case, but ignores the contract's end since he thinks the man is hallucinating. Afterwards, feeling guilty he decides to investigate. At the airport, Janice is now working for an airline and a big man named Thor is trying to fly to Norway with his hammer...

If the plot of the first book is hard to keep up, this one is even worse. But please, do not let that keep you away from enjoying this wonderful madness: Valhalla or St. Pancras, clean white linen sheets, devious marketing people and too many gods in need of worshipping. This book is just as crazy as the other one, full of hilarious and very confusing moments - it gets better every time you read it.

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