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Description edit
What can we say, without giving too much away? Not much, is the answer. This hilarious, tense tale with eye-popping action is full of the crackling one liners and imaginative set pieces you've come to expect. There's a new threat to our plucky heroine, of course. But that's not all. There's... read more
Characters/People edit
- Valkyrie Cain: Valkyrie Cain was a normal girl named Stephanie Edgley. Now she is Skulduggery Pleasant's partner/apprentice and studies Elemental Magic and Necromancy.
- Skulduggery Pleasant: The wise-cracking skeleton detective who's stuck in the Faceless One's world.
- Tanith Low: An amazing swordswoman, and Valkyrie's best friend.
- Ghastly Bespoke: He makes Valkyrie's almost invincible coat and outfit. A very great boxer, and a fine tailor.
- Thurid Guild: The Grand Mage of the Ireland Sanctuary.
- China Sorrows: The most beautiful women you ever saw. She's an information broker and a powerful magician.
- Billy-Ray Sanguine: The Texan straight-razor wielding, sinks-into-the-ground-powers bad guy you love and hate at the same time.
- Kenspeckle Grouse: The Sanctuary's greatest and crankiest magic-scientist and doctor. He has his own personal hideout/lab in the old Hibernian Cinema. He's terrified of vampires.
- Scarab: An evil character who always has plans...
- Davina Marr: An American who is the Sanctuary's top-ranked detective. She hates Skulduggery Pleasant, and by association, Valkyrie Cain.
- Vaurien Scapegrace: An evil "murderer" who wants to make killing an art.
- Thrasher: Middle aged man.
- Detective Remus Crux: Previous detective before Marr, who has lost his mind and wants to bring back the Faceless Ones.
- Solomon Wreath: A professional necromancer training Valkyrie.
- Darquesse: An evil sorceress who is predicted to destroy the world.
- Myron: A man who used to be an information broker. Now people know his true name and he can be controlled by anyone that speaks it.
- Fletcher Renn: Add a description of this character.
- Chabon
- Cassandra
- Springheeled Jack: Jumpy
- Finbar
- Dusk
- Clarabelle
- Caelan
- Anton Shudder
- Gordon
- Mr Bliss
- Phil Lynott
- Batu
- Cleaver
Quotes edit
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“Never look a gift horse in the mouth. Unless, of course, it's a wooden one.”
Skulduggery -
“Skulduggery once told her that the head he now wore was not his actual head--he had won it in a poker game.”
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
When Dreylan Scarab had been locked away in his little cell, he'd thought about nothing but murder.
Table of Contents edit
1. Scarab
2. Home Invasion
3. The Plan, Such As It Is
4. Bring Me the Head of Skulduggery Pleasant
5. The Revengers' Club
6. Into the Sanctuary
7. Back to Aranmore
8. Calling Dibs
9. Dead New World
10. Blood and Bullets
11. The Faceless Ones
12. Down the Barrel
13. No Thanks
14. The Fact of the Matter
15. Back on Cemetery Road
16. The Temple
17. Dead Man Talking
18. Darquesse
19. The New Pet
20. The Zombie Horde
21. The Raid
22. The Man Who Killed Esryn Vanguard
23. Crux
24. The Plot Thickens…
25. Last Vampire Standing
26. Kidnapped
27. When Kenspeckle Met Scarab
28. The Midnight Hotel
29. The Sit-Down
30. Mid-Afternoon of the Dead
31. Billy-Ray
32. Things Get Worse
33. Possessed
34. The Meeting
35. Myron Stray
36. Playtime
37. China’s Dark Secret
38. The Castle
39. Hollow Man
40. With Gordon
41. The Exorcists
42. The Necromancers
43. The Road to Croke Park
44. Revenge
45. Searching for Scarab
46. Endgame
47. Crazy
48. A Quiet Moment
49. Escorting the Prisoner
50. Back to Haggard
51. Whispers
Series & Lists edit
This is book 4 of 9 in Skulduggery Pleasant. (standard series)
Preceded by The Faceless Ones, and followed by Mortal Coil.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Derek Landy (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Tom Percival (Illustrator) - illuminated letters
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-00-732594-8
Page Count: 320
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-00-732594-8
Page Count: 320
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PZ7.L231757
- Dewey: 823.92
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Skulduggery Pleasant: The official website.
- Derek Landy Blogs Under Duress: Derek Landy's official blog.
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