Skulduggery Pleasant (1) – Skulduggery Pleasant

Derek Landy

Sep 2008 · Skulduggery Pleasant Book 1 · HarperCollins UK

About this ebook

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.

Oh yeah. And dead.

Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn't fiction.

Pursued by evil forces intent on recovering a mysterious key, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source – the wisecracking skeleton of a dead wizard.

When all hell breaks loose, it's lucky for Skulduggery that he's already dead. Though he's about to discover that being a skeleton doesn't stop you from being tortured, if the torturer is determined enough. And if there's anything Skulduggery hates, it's torture... Will evil win the day? Will Stephanie and Skulduggery stop bickering long enough to stop it? One thing's for sure: evil won't know what's hit it.

Ratings and reviews

well i do like this book we got a free snippet of the end of the world and i am not into fantasy but i will see wat the book hold for me if it is good please send us the other books to the school called maris stella in durban stephan dlamini road thanx yandisa p.s dont mind the rating that i am sending i havent read the book yet so wat i am rating is the cover of the book and because i dont like fantasy

I have the whole series in paperback, and each book are getting more exciting than the previous one. I love the humorous dialogues between the characters too~

I extremely loved the book through-out: it's got everything a good book should have. I love it and I recommend this enjoyably funny book for all of those mystery lovers out there! I very do hope that Derek Landy would make some more books for all of us to read. And it did very much live up to my expectations.

About the author

Derek Landy lives near Dublin. Before writing his children's story about a sharply-dressed skeleton detective, he wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous horror film. "I think my career-guidance teacher is spinning in her grave," he says, "or she would be if she were dead."