Skulduggery Pleasant: Book 1

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Meet the great Skulduggery Pleasant: wise-cracking detective, powerful magician, master of dirty tricks & burglary (in the name of the greater good, of course). Oh yeah. & dead. Then there`s his sidekick, Stephanie. She`s...well, she`s a twelve-year-old girl. With a pair like this on the case, evil had better watch out...” So you won`t keep anything from me again?” He put his hand to his chest. ” Cross my heart & 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 & 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. & if there`s anything Skulduggery hates, it`s torture... Will evil win the day? Will Stephanie & Skulduggery stop bickering long enough to stop it? One thing`s for sure: evil won`t know what`s hit it.