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Skulduggery Pleasant: Books 1 – 3: The Faceless Ones Trilogy
Skulduggery Pleasant, Playing with Fire, the Faceless Ones
Series: Skulduggery Pleasant
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Books 1, 2 and 3 in the Skulduggery Pleasant – the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe! From number-one-bestselling author Derek Landy.
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Books 1, 2 and 3 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series – the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe! From number-one-bestselling author Derek Landy.
Book 1: Skulduggery Pleasant. Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior. Oh yes, and dead.
Book 2: Playing with Fire. Vengeous. Dusk. Sanguine. Three of the deadliest killers alive are in town to resurrect an unstoppable creature of horrifying power… and only Skulduggery and Valkyrie stand in their way.
Book 3: The Faceless Ones. You’ve seen it all before: some bad guy wants to bring about the end of the world. A few people get hurt, sure, but everything’s all right in the end. Well… not this time.
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9780008463809
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Multiple-component retail product, slip-cased
Date Published: 04 February 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: HarperCollins
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 73.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 840g
Pages: 1024
About the Author
Derek Landy lives near Dublin. Before writing his children's story about a sharply-dressed skeleton detective, he wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous horror film. "I think my career-guidance teacher is spinning in her grave," he says, "or she would be if she were dead."
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