Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: The Salmon of Doubt, Vol. 1 Paperback – 20 June 2017
Arvind Ethan David . IDW Publishing . English
Dirk Gently, created by Douglas Adams and shortly to be the star of his own television series from BBC America, returns to comics in The Salmon of Doubt, brought to you by executive producers of the show Arvind Ethan David and Max Landis. Plagued by nightmares about a childhood he never had, Dirk returns to Cambridge University to seek the advice of his former tutor, the time-traveling Professor Reg Chronotis. There he discovers that a holistic detective can have more than one past, and his adventures have only just begun... Featuring favorite characters from the original books as well as the cast from the TV series, including Samuel Barnett and Elijah Wood.
Categories: Action & Adventure
About the Author
Arvind has written seven graphic novels, including most recently his adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s "Trouble Is My Business" and the Bram Stoker Award–nominated "Darkness Visible" with Mike Carey. Arvind has also written multiple hit audio originals, including the science fiction anthology series "Earworms", "The Crimes of Dorian Gray", and the nonfiction audiobook "Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth." In theatre, Arvind has created adaptations of the Douglas Adams novels "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy" and "Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency" (co-written with James Goss) as well as the children's musical "The Boy With Wings", based on Sir Lenny Henry’s children’s books. He also contributed additional material for David Baddiel and Erran Baron Cohen’s musical "The Infidel" and was a lead producer of the Grammy and Tony Award–winning Alanis Morissette musical "Jagged Little Pill". Arvind has written and produced extensively in television, including Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency for Netflix, Anansi Boys for Amazon, and the Asian Academy Award winner The Garden of Evening Mists for HBO. His debut prose novel "The Great Game" is published by Thomas & Mercer in July 2026. Follow Arvind @ArvD on BlueSky and @arvind.david on Instagram.
