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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
by Douglas Adams
More 3.5. I would say the last quarter goes off the rails, but it's more of a conductor playing fast and loose with track switching throughout the book than anything.
Little morsels of supernatural occurrences are sprinkled throughout the nontraditional start of this murder mystery as Richard, our every man conduit in this odd tale, visits an old professor at his college with a fascinating secret. This seemingly insignificant meal that he has during the Coleridge (as in the poet) dinner is key to unraveling the mystery going forward. An Electric Monk and his horse is dumped into this realm to complicate everything and a murder occurs, which serves as the catalyst of our protagonists' involvement though it rapidly takes a backseat in the conclusion.
We actually don't meet Dirk Gently until well into the first half of the book. A Sherlock Holmes in his cleverness, eccentricity, and lack of social finesse, Dirk comes into the picture as he spies Richard, an old schoolmate, doing something particularly unusual. He then uses his unconventional mind to solve the whole thing with the professor and the salt cellar, the appearance of Michael Wentin Weakes (another odd character that seemingly had unconnected chapters throughout), and the mysterious landscape at the start of the book. It's difficult to describe without spoilers though I'm afraid I've already written too much - better just to read it as it is quite a quick and easy read.
Little morsels of supernatural occurrences are sprinkled throughout the nontraditional start of this murder mystery as Richard, our every man conduit in this odd tale, visits an old professor at his college with a fascinating secret. This seemingly insignificant meal that he has during the Coleridge (as in the poet) dinner is key to unraveling the mystery going forward. An Electric Monk and his horse is dumped into this realm to complicate everything and a murder occurs, which serves as the catalyst of our protagonists' involvement though it rapidly takes a backseat in the conclusion.
We actually don't meet Dirk Gently until well into the first half of the book. A Sherlock Holmes in his cleverness, eccentricity, and lack of social finesse, Dirk comes into the picture as he spies Richard, an old schoolmate, doing something particularly unusual. He then uses his unconventional mind to solve the whole thing with the professor and the salt cellar, the appearance of Michael Wentin Weakes (another odd character that seemingly had unconnected chapters throughout), and the mysterious landscape at the start of the book. It's difficult to describe without spoilers though I'm afraid I've already written too much - better just to read it as it is quite a quick and easy read.