Skulduggery Pleasant (#1 Skulduggery Pleasant)

Author: Derek Landy

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  • : $18.00 AUD
  • : 9780007241620
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : HarperCollins GB
  • : July 2007
  • : 17.99
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  • : Derek Landy
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Barcode 9780007241620
9780007241620

Description

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.  

Awards

Winner of Red House Children's Book Awards: Overall Winner 2008 and Red House Children's Book Awards: Books for Older Readers 2008 and Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards: Book of the Decade 2000-2009. Shortlisted for Dublin Airport Authority Irish Children's Book of the Year Award: Senior 2008.  

Author description

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."