Skulduggery Pleasant (#1 Skulduggery Pleasant)

Author(s): Derek Landy

Children's Fiction

Hell-for-leather car chases, vampire smack-downs and magical duels. Get ready for the fastest, funniest fright-fest of your life... 'So you won't keep anything from me again?' He put his hand to his chest. 'Cross my heart and hope to die.' 'Okay then. Though you don't actually have a heart, she said. 'I know.' 'And technically, you've already died.' 'I know that too.' 'Just so we're clear.' 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.


Product Information

Winner of Red House Children's Book Awards: Books for Older Readers 2008 and Red House Children's Book Awards: Overall Winner 2008. Shortlisted for Dublin Airport Authority Irish Children's Book of the Year Award: Senior 2008.

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."

General Fields

  • : 9780007241637
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : HarperCollins Children's Books
  • : 01 April 2007
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Derek Landy
  • : Paperback
  • : 368
  • : Fantasy & magical realism; Horror & ghost stories, chillers