Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a comic novel concerning the adventures of Richard MacDuff, a computer programmer who is drawn into the orbit of Professor Chronotis, a Cambridge professor who has been at the university for several hundred years. With the help of his former classmate Dirk Gently, Richard must unravel a mystery concerning time, space, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This novel examines the themes of time travel, morality, and paradoxes.
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