Three book set, includes The Salmon of Doubt, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Dirk Gently #1-3

by Douglas Adams

In between Adams's first trip to Madagascar with Mark Carwardine in 1985, and their series of travels that formed the basis for the radio series and non-fiction book Last Chance to See, Adams wrote two other novels with a new cast of characters. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was first published in 1987, and was described by its author as "a kind of ghost-horror-detective-time-travel-romantic-comedy-epic, mainly concerned with mud, music and quantum mechanics". A sequel novel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, was published a year later. In May 2002 The unfinished Salmon of Doubt was published, containing many short stories, essays, and letters. The Salmon of Doubt was originally intended to become a new Dirk Gently novel.

Genres: Science Fiction

1200 pages, Paperback

First published October 21, 2013

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG). Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. It was further developed into a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.
Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990) and Last Chance to See (1990). He wrote two stories for the television series Doctor Who, co-wrote City of Death (1979), and served as script editor for its seventeenth season. He co-wrote the sketch "Patient Abuse" for the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. A posthumous collection of his selected works, including the first publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.
Adams was a self-proclaimed "radical atheist", an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, and a lover of fast cars, technological innovation, and the Apple Macintosh.

Reviews

[Douglas Beagley · Rating 5 out of 5]

A marvelous little scifi mystery novel. I had forgotten how good this was... and how much restraint it shows. He leads you right up to a problem for the protagonist that you think is going to be the dull and stressful main plot, and then changes the game. He also plays with some clever ideas and has a tremendous eye for quick, "throw away" humor and SF moments.

[Bonnie Dale Keck · Rating 5 out of 5]

Have saw the serial and the movies and read the books individually and as omnibus and different sets, hardback, still in my library, says a lot. Date wrong, just saw it to review. also listened to radio ones of course