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Skulduggery pleasant is the debut novel of irish playwright derek landy, published in 2007. Elemental, necromancy, wallwalking, symbol magic, teleportation, tunneling, bone breaking, or sensitivity. Playing with fire skulduggery pleasant, book 2 read. If youve 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. Click a book for free excerpts, audio clips, video trailers and more. Skulduggery pleasant books 1 2 skulduggery pleasant omnibus. I bought this book for my little boy as he loves skulduggery pleasant and had read one of these books before. And only skulduggery and valkyrie stand in their way. Devastation day was the day when darquesse returned to roarhaven to destroy the world. This book is dedicated to my parents, john and barbara. In the fifth book, mortal coil, gordon is finally revealed to the others in the group by valkyrie cain, only to find out that the skeleton detective, skulduggery pleasant, knew the whole time but didnt say anything because he figured that gordon would be a little sensitive.