Now reissued in paperback with bold new covers--the beloved middle-grade series following the great Skulduggery Pleasant--wise-cracking detective, powerful magician, master of dirty tricks and burglary (in the name of the greater good, of course)--and his fierce companion, Stephanie! 5 1/8 x 7 13/16.

She's twelve. He's dead. But together they're going to save the world. Hopefully.

The iconic first book in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series.

Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn't fiction.

Pursued by evil forces, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source - the wisecracking skeleton of a dead sorcerer...