Title: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently #1) Author: Douglas Adams Originally published in 1987 Source: I read the 1989 Pan Books edition that I found in the school library. Blurb from the author's official website: Dirk Gently is a private detective who is more interested in telekinesis, quantum mechanics and lunch than fiddling around with fingerprint powder, so his investigations tend to produce startling and unexpected results. A simple search for a missing cat uncovers a bewildered ghost, a secret time-traveller, and the devastating secret that lies behind the whole human history and threatens to bring it to a premature end. Sadly the cat dies. Dinara's Rule #1 for getting a good book rating: Never kill the cat! For no story, no matter how captivating or fascinating, justifies the suffering and the eventual death of an animal, even a fictional one. Even if the said animal died peacefully. And especially, if Erwin Schrödinger is s...