Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987) is a time-travel fiction novel. It takes readers to Cambridge, England and University of Cambridge in the Four billion years in Earth's past. Characters include Dirk Gently, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and Richard MacDuff. Readers will find themes of Krimi, abiogenesis, Laudanum and Kubla Khan.
Open Library readers give it an average of 4.0 out of 5 from 38 ratings, and 225 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 36 editions across 5 languages.
It runs to roughly 278 pages — 5–6 hours of reading at an average pace.
About Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
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Who wrote Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency?
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency was written by Douglas Adams and first published in 1987.
What genre is Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency?
It is usually shelved as Time Travel.
How long is Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency?
The median edition has 278 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency?
Readers who like it often enjoy Making History.
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