Skulduggery Pleasant: Books 4 - 6
Together for the first time, books 4, 5 and 6 in the Skulduggery Pleasant – the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe! From number-one-bestselling author Derek Landy.Book 4: DARK DAYS. Skulduggery pleasant is gone, sucked into a parallel dimension. There is no official, Sanctuary-approved plan to save him. But Valkyrie’s never had much time for plans…Book 5: MORTAL COIL. With Valkyrie struggling to protect her dark secret, Skulduggery and the gang are more vulnerable than ever, just as a plague of body-snatching Remnants are released upon the world…Book 6: DEATH BRINGER. The Death Bringer has risen. Skulduggery and Valkyrie have seven days to uncover the Necromancers’ secret before it’s too late. The clock is ticking. Lord Vile is loose. And after this one, nothing will ever be the same again.
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Skulduggery Pleasant 4-6
Derek Landy
These novels are entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in them are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Published by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2014
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2010 (Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days), 2010 (Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil), 2011 (Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer)
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Source ISBN: 9780007382279 (Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days), 9780007414352 (Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil), 9780007455430 (Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer)
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Table of Contents
Copyright
Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days
Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil
Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer
About the Author
About the Publisher
Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days
Derek Landy
This book is dedicated to Laura.
I’m not going to make any jokes here, because apparently you are the one person on Earth who does not find me even remotely funny.
I am HILARIOUS. Ask anyone. Ask your sister. She thinks I’m HYSTERICAL (you do, don’t you Katie…?)
And yet, even though you refuse to recognise my comedy genius, and you refuse to publically admit how impressed you are by everything I do, you’re still getting a book dedicated to you – because without you, Skulduggery wouldn’t have his Valkyrie.
You’re my best friend and my muse, and I owe you a lot.
(A “lot” being, of course, entirely figurative, and in no way implies that you’re getting a share of the royalties.)
Contents
Dedication
4 - Bring Me the Head of Skulduggery Pleasant
22 - The Man who Killed Esryn Vanguard
27 - When Kenspeckle Met Scarab
hen Dreylan Scarab had been locked away in his little cell, he’d thought about nothing but murder. He liked murder. Murder and long walks had been two of his favourite things when he was younger. He’d walk a long way to kill someone, he’d often said, and he’d kill for a long walk. But after close to 200 years in that cell, he’d kind of lost interest in walks. His passion for murder, however, burned brighter than ever.
They let him out of prison a few days early, and he stepped into the Arizona sunshine an old man. They had kept his power from him, and without his power his body had withered and aged. But his mind stayed sharp. Try asthey might, the years could not dull his mind. Still, he didn’t like being old. He counted how long it took him to cross the road and wasn’t pleased with the result.
