Skulduggery Pleasant: Books 1 - 12

Skulduggery Pleasant: Books 1 - 12
Derek Landy

Together for the first time, all 12 book in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe: Skulduggery Pleasant! From number-one-bestselling author Derek Landy.Contains all twelve individual titles:SKULDUGGERY PLEASANTPLAYING WITH FIRETHE FACELESS ONESDARK DAYSMORTAL COILDEATH BRINGERKINGDOM OF THE WICKEDLAST STAND OF DEAD MENTHE DYING OF THE LIGHTRESURRECTIONMIDNIGHTand the to be revealed… Book 12!

Skulduggery Pleasant, Playing With Fire, The Faceless Ones, Dark Days, Mortal Coil, Death Bringer, Kingdom of the Wicked, Last Stand of Dead Men, The Dying of the Light, Resurrection, Midnight and Bedlam first published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2019

Published in this ebook pack edition in 2019

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Source ISBNs: 9780007279005 (Skulduggery Pleasant), 9780007302123 (Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire), 9780007318285 (Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless Ones), 9780007325979 (Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days), 9780007326013 (Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil), 9780007326037 (Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer), 9780007480210 (Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom of the Wicked), 9780007489237 (Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men), 9780007489282 (Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the Light), 9780008219581 (Skulduggery Pleasant: Resurrection), 9780008284602 (Skulduggery Pleasant: Midnight), 9780008295660 (Skulduggery Pleasant: Bedlam)

Ebook Edition © May 2019 ISBN: 9780008318208

Version: 2019-05-01

Contents

Cover (#ud5dbdc7e-3f38-58f0-a377-c755d2afe091)

Title Page (#u961d55af-8a7c-5ac3-8983-90c029f35f7f)

Copyright (#ud23f1b33-bfba-5b0b-94b0-04f5ca14f0f7)

Skulduggery Pleasant (#u312f4656-4a3d-5d33-99e6-b602bbf690ff)

Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire (#uf56d8f7d-581e-53b4-9922-6b7a81d36708)

Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless Ones (#uf238fbdb-fe4c-5de2-bcd6-8a30c35913b5)

Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days (#u56f0c8f4-c734-5c34-a6fc-328fea55bca6)

Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil (#ucbd06a1a-bb73-5ab0-93c4-c3142b790608)

Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer (#u07ad73a9-b219-5313-9292-ed6d025df82d)

Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom of the Wicked (#ud135b0bd-4239-5d41-87d9-6620e41eda90)

Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men (#ube392741-44c2-5243-94ff-ab6d05e48685)

Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the Light (#u944c4aa1-e655-5f35-bd29-4c1382255f00)

Skulduggery Pleasant: Resurrection (#u24e924e5-4f61-5a70-9151-bfce25c68be0)

Skulduggery Pleasant: Midnight (#ud37a5004-349f-5d43-8e0b-62bd89f02e3b)

Skulduggery Pleasant: Bedlam (#u90cf3a5f-104f-5b1d-94bb-8a5f267b3f72)

About the Author (#u096ea879-651e-5395-bc6e-928abf513730)

Also By (#u0712c595-25d1-5f99-8d57-9674adc8ea97)

About the Publisher (#u5aa32300-e4ef-515e-9223-482916273cc5)

Dedication (#uc5ba8f49-417d-5055-bd14-fce225737aba)

This book is dedicated to my parents, John and Barbara.

Dad – this is for your bizarrely unwavering support and unflinching faith.

Barbs – this is for that look on your face when I told you the good news.

I owe you absolutely everything and, y’know, I suppose it’s entirely possible that I feel some, like, degree of affection towards the two of you…

Contents

Title Page (#u312f4656-4a3d-5d33-99e6-b602bbf690ff)Dedication (#u5d124481-69b2-5b88-a6fb-96aed08e6682)Chapter One: Stephanie (#u72eb0a79-44bb-5ab4-bc2d-55656c2030ee)Chapter Two: The Will (#u6966a640-a4f0-5425-96a7-114f8a95dcbe)Chapter Three: Little Girl, All Alone (#u2bb7ef8e-a4bd-52df-b85b-2e61b3f1c914)Chapter Four: The Secret War (#u8b91c191-78e0-5aec-a627-96d22280b811)Chapter Five: Meeting China Sorrows (#u04d6ae9e-66b7-5ae7-a34f-489a5c26bb0e)Chapter Six: A Man Apart (#ufcd185ea-6fa0-515c-976c-383e0391946d)Chapter Seven: Serpine (#u83ba160b-89e4-588f-9c38-017ac12d3710)Chapter Eight: Ghastly (#u7cc12804-47cf-5829-b034-19b2553cb6b9)Chapter Nine: The Troll Beneath Westminster Bridge (#u36a178b8-908c-58a7-90f1-8b9b6ef0f5b0)Chapter Ten: The Gal In Black (#uceef6c3e-3a12-5185-896b-994a9d90a3f2)Chapter Eleven: The Little Bit Of Crime (#u43c6c808-1232-5c25-80d0-a8d4d3ea0556)Chapter Twelve: Vampires (#u1bd41fac-2296-5cee-977d-5d64c86b3b37)Chapter Thirteen: The Red Right Hand (#ucea26282-7772-5e2b-9ce7-428e8adf9d07)Chapter Fourteen: Elemental Magic (#u69e4602f-3bcc-5ebe-b7e5-4e0c3be97adb)Chapter Fifteen: The Torture Room (#ucc5f1e00-2e68-542b-ac62-b4a060b2eb1e)Chapter Sixteen: What’s In A Name? (#ud0336004-908d-5377-975a-1204433afe3d)Chapter Seventeen: A Fabulous Rescue Indeed (#u684086df-59b8-57ff-9143-a691c5e3a0e7)Chapter Eighteen: On The Roof, At Night (#ue13b943c-6fed-5111-8baa-cbe08487459f)Chapter Nineteen: The Experiment (#uadfd2444-9695-5fd5-b1b4-78df3f8b3ceb)Chapter Twenty: The Family Curse (#u5c839d0d-59c3-5e27-ae63-a171208bd22d)Chapter Twenty One: The Cave (#u786b9aa0-b73e-528d-be49-e8cad415593b)Chapter Twenty Two: The Sceptre Of The Ancients (#u25c2ac7c-007a-58f8-9cda-3bb124473278)Chapter Twenty Three: Thoughts On Dying Horribly (#ucdae6c47-e10c-5b59-af79-b86d136ae9f8)Chapter Twenty Four: Planning For Murder (#u1bd86913-a18d-5482-a4a1-f0bb074d0b20)Chapter Twenty Five: The White Cleaver (#ua761bac0-1fa0-5915-b85f-9d3b0519d88a)Chapter Twenty Six: The Last Stand Of… (#u5c0c1a09-0d92-5b74-bf4d-2588941bbea1)Chapter Twenty Seven: No Calm Before The Storm (#u5e971178-dd09-58bf-8795-644d71056c6c)Chapter Twenty Eight: Carnage (#u5b0b13b7-3528-5fa3-9b2e-dbebc7e10657)Chapter Twenty Nine: Deep In Dublin, Death (#u87f8442c-30a8-5c26-8f7f-62f6cd2fc4f7)Chapter Thirty: An End, A Beginning (#u6aec9b27-488d-5705-946e-4f9e589c080a)

1 (#uc5ba8f49-417d-5055-bd14-fce225737aba)

STEPHANIE

ordon Edgley’s sudden death came as a shock to everyone – not least himself. One moment he was in his study, seven words into the twenty-fifth sentence of the final chapter of his new book And The Darkness Rained Upon Them, and the next he was dead. A tragic loss, his mind echoed numbly as he slipped away.