Discover the world of Skulduggery Pleasant in this prequel to the bestselling series. So many enemies, so little time . . .

Derek Landy lives near Dublin. Before writing his children's story about a sharply-dressed skeleton detective, he wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous horror film. "I think my career-guidance teacher is spinning in her grave," he says, "or she would be if she were dead."