title: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: A Spoon Too Short
author: Arvind  Ethan David
description: <b>Arvind Ethan David</b>, is a Malaysian-born British film producer, graduate of Oxford Univeristy, and the founder of Slingshot Productions. He is best known for producing David Baddiels<i>The Infidel</i>in 2010. Other feature films he has produced include<i>Tormented</i>starring Alex Pettyfer and<i>French Film</i>starring Hugh Bonneville and Manchester United football legend Eric Cantona.<i>French Film</i>won Best Actor for Bonneville and Best Screenplay for Aschlin Ditta at the 2008 Monte Carlo Film Festival. David also won Best Adaptation at the 2007 LA Weekly Theater Awards for<i>Dirk</i>, based on<i>Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency</i>by Douglas Adams.
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  ## Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Douglas Adams
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the
  world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Samuel
  Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common?
  
  
  Apparently, not much: until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator,
  sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving
  a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a
  mysterious mystery, and eating a lot of pizza - not to mention saving the
  entire human race from extinction along the way (at no extra charge).
  
  
  To find out more, read this book (better still, buy it and then read it) - or
  contact Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Douglas Adams
  
  
  ## Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  to my mother, who liked the bit about the horse
  
  
  