Skulduggery Pleasant (1) – Skulduggery Pleasant

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 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.