The Faceless Ones
Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.Oh yes. And dead.If you’ve read the previous Skulduggery books then you know what the Faceless Ones are – and if you know what the Faceless Ones are, then you can probably take a wild guess that things in this book are going to get AWFULLY sticky for our skeletal hero and his young sidekick.If you haven’t read the previous Skulduggery books then what are you doing reading this? Go and read them right now, so that you know what all that stuff in the previous paragraph was about.Done? Good. So now you’re on tenterhooks too, desperately awaiting the answers to all your questions, and instead you’re going to have to wait to read the book. Sorry about that.
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Source ISBN: 9780007302161
Ebook Edition © ISBN: 9780007318285
Version: 2016-12-12
This book is dedicated to my agent, Michelle Kass.
Iâm not going to be sappy here, OK? Iâm not going to talk about how much youâve done for me (which is a lot), or the impact youâve had on my life (which is immense), and Iâm not even going to talk about the advice, encouragement, and counsel youâve given me since we met. And Iâm not going to mention conversations on tractors either, or iPods at dinner tables, or the amount of Yiddish words youâve taught me that Iâve promptly forgotten.
All of which, surprisingly, leaves me with nothing much to say.
Sorry about that.
Contents
Chapter 1: The Scene of the Crime
Chapter 2: Killer on the Loose
Chapter 5: Tracking the Teleporter
Chapter 10: Finbarâs Little Trip
Chapter 12: In the Office of the Grand Mage
Chapter 13: The House on Cemetery Road
Chapter 15: Breaking and Entering
Chapter 16: Stealing the Grotesquery
Chapter 17: The Dark Little Secret
Chapter 19: The Man Who Would Be King
Chapter 22: Conversations with a Late Uncle
Chapter 24: The Changing House
Chapter 34: The Battle of Aranmore
Chapter 35: The Things of Impossibility
Chapter 37: Falling into Place
Valkyrie moved through the room as she had been taught, scanning the floor and surfaces, but managing to avoid looking at the body. She felt no compulsion to see any more of the victim than she absolutely had to. Her dark eyes drifted to the window. The park across the street was empty, the slides glistening with the rain and the swings creaking in the chill, early morning breeze.
Footsteps in the room and she turned to watch Skulduggery Pleasant take a small bag of powder from his jacket. He was wearing a pinstriped suit that successfully filled out his skeletal frame, and his hat was low over his eye sockets. He dipped a gloved finger into the bag and started to stir, breaking up the smaller lumps.
âThoughts?â he said.
âHe was taken by surprise,â answered Valkyrie. âThe lack of any defensive marks means he didnât have time to put up a fight. Just like the others.â
âSo the killer was either completely silent â¦â
âOr his victims trusted him.â There was something odd about the room, something that didnât quite fit. Valkyrie looked around. âAre you sure he lived here? There are no books on magic, no talismans, no charms on the walls, nothing.â
Skulduggery shrugged. âSome mages enjoy living on both sides. The magical community is secretive, but there are
