The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Synopsis

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.

Ideas Explored

• Absurdist Cosmic Bureaucracy
• Faith-Powered Deity Reduced to Powerlessness
• Mythological Parallel World Entrapment

Metadata

Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: Dirk Gently (Fictitious character)FictionFiction, fantasy, contemporaryFiction, humorousFiction, science fiction, generalGently, dirk (fictitious character), fictionNorse mythologyPrivate investigatorsPrivate investigators, fictionhoroscopesneeds-reviewno-clear-speculative-idea

isfdb_id: 1622

openlibrary_id: OL2163629W

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