Where neither the police, nor a credentialed psychiatrist, nor a Cambridge professor can help, a detective agency steps in—Dirk Gently, the foremost specialist in divorce cases, missing cats, and aliens from other worlds.
Who, if not him, can answer the most difficult questions of our time:
What do a cat and Coleridge have in common with quantum mechanics and a Chesterfield-style couch?
Can a dead man sue for slander?
And is it really true that in each of us’s subconscious lives a genius ready to handle any task—even one that seems, at first glance, impossible?