From Douglas Adams, the legendary author of one of the most beloved science fiction novels of all time, <I>The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy</I>, comes a wildly inventive novel—in trade paperback for the first time—of ghosts, time travel, and one detective’s mission to save humanity from extinction.<BR><BR>DIRK GENTLY’S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY<BR>We solve the <i>whole</i> crime<BR>We find the <i>whole</i> person<BR>Phone today for the <i>whole</i> solution to your problem<BR>(Missing cats and messy divorces a specialty)<BR> <BR>Douglas Adams, the “master of wacky words and even wackier tales” (<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>) once again boggles the mind with a completely unbelievable story of ghosts, time travel, eccentric computer geniuses, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the end of the world, and—of course—missing cats.