Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency is the first in the Dirk Gently series by the late Douglas Adams. After the first few chapters, the reader may well ask: what do a faulty electronic monk with belief problems, a horse in a bathroom, a sofa stuck in a staircase, a computer programmer, a Professor of Chronology, a billionaire software company owner, a silver salt cellar stuck inside a 200 year-old Greek pot and the poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge have to do with one another? Dirk Gently, owner of Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency, firmly believes in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, and does, indeed, manage to prove that this is so. While he does so, he also manages to track down a visitor from another world and save our own. This novel is full of delicious, clever Adams humour of the same quality as Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, from the first to the very last page. Some of the things Adams dreams up (like Total Reason software to support the outcome you want, music from the form of things in nature and Zen navigation) are only a step from the truly realistic. Readers will look forward to whatever Adams has to offer in the sequel, The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.