Skulduggery Pleasant
By: by Derek Landy
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780061950834
Subjects: Skeleton; Juvenile fiction; Wizards; Magic; Fiction
Description: After twelve-year-old Stephanie Edgeley inherits her uncle Gordon's estate, she joins forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton-detective-sorcerer, to save the world from the Faceless Ones.
Notes: Originally published: New York : HarperCollins, ©2007.

Extras: An exclusive interview with Skulduggery Pleasant and Derek Landy's short story about Skulduggery in captivity, "The Lost Art of World Domination."

Ages 10 up.
Table of contents: title: Stephanie; title: The will; title: Little girl, all alone; title: The secret war; title: Meeting China Sorrows; title: A man apart; title: Serpine; title: Ghastly; title: The troll beneath Westminster bridge; title: The gal in black; title: The little bit of crime; title: Vampires; title: The red right hand; title: Elemental magic; title: The torture room; title: What's in a name?; title: A fabulous rescue indeed; title: On the roof, at night; title: The experiment; title: The family curse; title: The cave; title: The scepter of the ancients; title: Thoughts on dying horribly; title: Planning for murder; title: The white cleaver; title: The last stand of...; title: No calm before the storm; title: Carnage; title: Deep in Dublin, death; title: An end, a beginning.