The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)

SUMMARY: Sequel to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. A passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport goes up in a ball of flame and Dirk Gently becomes very inquisitive. Fiction,General,London (England),Science Fiction,Fantasy,Fantasy fiction,Science Fiction - General,Private investigators,Fantasy - General,Detective and mystery stories; English,General & Literary Fiction,Space Opera,Fiction - Fantasy,Humorous stories; English,Detective and mystery fiction,Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945),Gently; Dirk (Fictitious character),Fantasy fiction; English

when A Passenger Check-in Desk At London's Heathrow Airport Disappears In A Ball Of Orange Flame, The Explosion Is Deemed An Act Of God. But Which God, Wonders Holistic Detective Dirk Gently? What God Would Be Hanging Around Heathrow Trying To Catch The 3:37 To Oslo? And What Has This To Do With Dirk's Latest--and Late-- Client, Found Only This Morning With His Head Revolving Atop The Hit Record Hot Potato? Amid The Hostile Attentions Of A Stray Eagle And The Trauma Of A Very Dirty Refrigerator, Super-sleuth Dirk Gently Will Once Again Solve The Mysteries Of The Universe...

publishers Weekly

``the British Author Of The Hitchhiker Trilogy And Other Immensely Popular Lunacies, Adams Permits No Whiff Of Common Sense To Spoil His New Novel, Which Combines Fantasy, Hilarity And Creeping Horrors,'' Remarked Pw . Here, Sleuth Dirk Gently Investigates A Lawyer And An Advertiser Who Possess The Soul Of The God Odin. ``the Plot's Ramifications Are Marvelous, Bloody And Irresistible.'' (jan.)

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams. It is the second book by Adams featuring private detective Dirk Gently, the first being [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163714W). It was followed by the [Salmon of Doubt](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163715W), an incomplete Dirk Gently novel included in a posthumous collection of the same name. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul has been adapted for radio, and several plot lines appear in the 2010 BBC TV series. After a Heathrow Airport ticket counter explodes, intergalactic sleuth Dirk Gently finds himself up against a heavenly host of foes-- from the IRA to the Norse Gods When a passenger check-in desk shoots through the roof of a terminal at Heathrow Airport in flames, Dirk Gently investigates the cosmic forces at play It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."