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

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Douglas Adams

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

Summit Books

printing (1), New York, New York State, January 1, 2006

Dirk Gently trilogy, 2, New York, ©1988

United States, United States of America

Book club ed, New York, ©1988

New York etc, Unknown, 1988

First Edition, 1989

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"Originally published in Great Britain by William Heinemann Ltd."--t.p. verso.

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When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shoots up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame, the usual people try to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board; even British Nuclear Fuels rushes out a statement that the situation is completely under control, that it was a one-in-a-million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all, and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it hasn't actually anything to do with them at all....
No rational cause can be found for the explo- sion—it is simply designated an act of God. But, thinks Dirk Gently, which God? And why? What God would be hanging around Terminal 'IWo of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the to Oslo? Soon he is involved (pleasantly) with an attrac- tive young syornan who has survived the blast, and (unpleasantly) with a couple of angry, bickering gods, as well as a whole series of apparently unrelated challenges to his detective abilities that would have baffled Sherlock Holmes—from the mysterious death of a client whose head is found revolving on a rock LP record to the hostile atten- lion of a stray eagle....
Funnier than Psycho, more chilling than Jeeves Mes shorter than WIT and Pence, the new Dirk Gently novel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, is Douglas Adams' most ambitious (and delightfully puzzling) novel to date, pitting Dirk Gently not only against the Laws of the Universe, but also the Norse Gods....
--jacket

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.

A passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport goes up in a ball of flame and Dirk Gently becomes very inquisitive

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."

Douglas Adams. Originally Published In Great Britain By William Heinemann Ltd.--t.p. Verso.

2018-07-15