The Faceless Ones

The Faceless Ones
Derek Landy

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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First published in Great Britain by

HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2007

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Derek Landy blogs under duress at

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Text copyright © Derek Landy 2009

Illuminated letters copyright © Tom Percival 2009

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Cover illustration © Tom Percival

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Source ISBN: 9780007302161

Ebook Edition © ISBN: 9780007318285

Version: 2016-12-12

This book is dedicated to my agent, Michelle Kass.

I’m not going to be sappy here, OK? I’m not going to talk about how much you’ve done for me (which is a lot), or the impact you’ve had on my life (which is immense), and I’m not even going to talk about the advice, encouragement, and counsel you’ve given me since we met. And I’m not going to mention conversations on tractors either, or iPods at dinner tables, or the amount of Yiddish words you’ve taught me that I’ve promptly forgotten.

All of which, surprisingly, leaves me with nothing much to say.

Sorry about that.

Contents

Cover (#ued894f6d-cd9c-5309-a9ef-ff65a08668b0)

Title Page (#u34aaf96e-a023-5a11-bd37-1f404ae55229)

Copyright (#ubfa2fe34-4a8f-5e3f-99f4-e988af3181eb)

Dedication (#ufeec4670-5dd0-5fda-847f-866cbebdb785)

Chapter 1: The Scene of the Crime (#uae67b02c-c724-531c-b605-a426a02d7caf)

Chapter 2: Killer on the Loose (#u2b842c56-87a2-514b-91f8-abc7ecc64534)

Chapter 3: That First Kiss (#u01808118-de96-5051-af70-e4aa75aea2e9)

Chapter 4: The Sea Hag (#u5b302b6e-11db-5496-bc5c-1c94ce865da4)

Chapter 5: Tracking the Teleporter (#u48806ded-cc30-59b5-9d63-ce40da76411c)

Chapter 6: Fletcher Renn (#ue639acf0-c1b6-5d16-a0ac-772cdae77b08)

Chapter 7: Batu (#u4faa183c-c75e-511f-9fd5-ebf400f3b929)

Chapter 8: The Civilised Man (#u5b59d57a-f44a-52e8-a5bf-d9dbf191914a)

Chapter 9: The Enemy (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10: Finbar’s Little Trip (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11: Wreath (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12: In the Office of the Grand Mage (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13: The House on Cemetery Road (#litres_trial_promo)