Skulduggery Pleasant

Resumen del libro

Meet the great Skulduggery Pleasant: wise-cracking detective, powerful magician, master of dirty tricks and burglary (in the name of the greater good, of course). Oh yeah. And 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 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.

Biografía del autor

Derek Landy es demasiado modesto para hablar de los premios que han ganado sus libros, o de todos los galardones que humildemente despliega en la repisa de su chimenea. Tampoco mencionará, por supuesto, el hecho de que su primer libro, Skulduggery Pleasant, obtuvo el Premio Bord Gais Energy Irish Book of the Decade Y el Red House Children's Book Award, o que su segundo libro, Jugando con fuego, ganó el premio al Libro Infantil del Año en Irlanda, o incluso que su tercera obra, Los Sin Rostro, es el favorito de su madre. Derek juega demasiado con viedeojuegos, lee demasiados cómics y ve demasiadas películas. A veces habla con gente real, pero solo cuando es absolutamente necesario. Vive en Irlanda con cantidad de gatos, un pastor alemán, y dos bull terriers de geriátrico a los que les sigue pareciendo que hacer pipí en el suelo de su cocina es divertido.