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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

      
When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all. No rational cause could be found for the explosion it was simply designated an act of God. But, think Dirk Gently, which God? And why? What God would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 to Oslo? Funnier than Psycho...more chilling than Jeeves Takes Charge ...shorter than War and Peace...the new Dirk Gently novel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.

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0671742515
0517119129
147673965X

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recent publishing history

Paperback

Jan-1990

Pocket

ISBN: 0671694049

ISBN13: 9780671694043


Trade Paperback

Oct-1989

Tor (UK)

ISBN: 0330309552

ISBN13: 9780330309554


Mass Market Paperback

Feb-1991

Pocket

ISBN: 0671742515

ISBN13: 9780671742515

First Edition

Hardcover

Mar-1989

Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 0671625837

ISBN13: 9780671625832


Hardcover

Feb-1991

Turtleback Books

Library Binding

ISBN: 060601764X

ISBN13: 9780606017640


Hardcover

Dec-1994

Random House

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency / The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

ISBN: 0517119129

ISBN13: 9780517119129

eBook (Kindle)

Mar-2013

Pocket Books


eBook

Mar-2013

Pocket Books

ISBN: 147673965X

ISBN13: 9781476739656

Audio Cassette

Mar-1989

Simon & Schuster Audio

ISBN: 0671678523

ISBN13: 9780671678524


Audio Cassette

Dec-1989

Audio Literature

ISBN: 155800159X

ISBN13: 9781558001596


Audio Cassette

Jun-1993

Simon & Schuster Audio

ISBN: 0671881450

ISBN13: 9780671881450


Audio CD

Jun-2001

New Millennium Audio

ISBN: 1590070755

ISBN13: 9781590070758


Audio Cassette

Feb-2002

New Millennium Audio

ISBN: 1590070607

ISBN13: 9781590070604


Audio CD

Jan-2006

Phoenix Audio (UK)

ISBN: 1597770086

ISBN13: 9781597770088

 

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published

Mar-1989 (hardcover)

Jan-1990 (paperback)

author series

Dirk Gently - 2

genres

Speculative Fiction

sub-genres

Science Fiction