Книга: Derek Landy «Skulduggery Pleasant: Book I»
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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... Издательство: "HarperCollins" (2007) Формат: 130x200, 384 стр.
ISBN: 978-0-00-724162-0 Купить за 679 руб на Озоне |
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Derek Landy
| Derek Landy | |
|---|---|
| Born | Derek Landy October 23, 1974 County Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Genres | Fantasy |
| Notable work(s) | Skulduggery Pleasant |
Derek Landy (born October 1974 in Lusk, County Dublin) is an Irish author and screenwriter, famous for the Skulduggery Pleasant series of children's books.
He has written two screenplays that have been made into films -- the IFTA award winning Dead Bodies and the IFTA nominated Boy Eats Girl starring Samantha Mumba. Landy himself was nominated for an IFTA for Best Script.
Landy later moved onto writing the Skulduggery Pleasant novels, starting with Skulduggery Pleasant, published by Harper Collins which according to The Sunday Times in 2006 paid 1 million euro for the publishing rights. He plans to write 9 books in the series[1]
He attended Drogheda Grammar School during his childhood years and also has a black belt in kenpo karate.
Novels
- Skulduggery Pleasant (With "Scepter of the Ancients" as an alternative name to avoid confusion with the series) (2007)
- Playing with Fire (2008)
- The Faceless Ones (April, 2009)
- Dark Days (April, 2010)
- Mortal Coil (September 2010)
- Death Bringer (September 2011)
- End of the world (2012)
His first novel, Skulduggery Pleasant was originally released in 2007 and won the illustrious Red House Children's Book Award, with children voting for the winning novel.[2] It was published in the US in 2009 as Scepter of the Ancients. Playing with Fire and Mortal Coil both won the senior Irish Children's Book Award, in 2009 and 2010.
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- Living people
- 1974 births
- Irish writers
- Irish children's writers
- Irish horror writers
- People educated at Drogheda Grammar School
Источник: Derek Landy
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