Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior. ... Oh yeah. And dead.
I love the very word 'skulduggery' - underhand, sneaky, not exactly on the right side of the law, and to team it with 'pleasant' is masterful. To me, it speaks of a likable, a very likable rogue. And, that's what the Skeleton Detective proves to be. He is an intelligent, humourous, wise-cracking person, full of goodhearted devilment. He knows the difference between right and wrong, and also that lawful isn't always the same as right.
Stephanie meets Skulduggery briefly the funeral of her uncle, Gordon Edgley, and then again at the reading of Gordon's will. Gordon was a writer of fiction, and Stephanie learns that Gordon's world might not be as fictional as people first thought. She discovers she has the ability to work magic. Stephanie and Skulduggery team up to do what is right (but perhaps not always what is lawful).
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