Beryl was spiteful and unpleasant, a trait she’d passed onto their twin daughters.Īt the funeral Stephanie notices a man wearing a long coat and whose face is covered with a hat, scarf and dark glasses. Fergus was as unpleasant as Stephanie’s father was nice and Gordon was strange. Their other brother, Fergus, had also drifted away. He had been close to his brother when young, until Gordon got in with his strange and unsettling crowd. Stephanie’s father owns a construction company and, together with her mother, they lead a quiet and conventional life that borders on a little bit boring. She liked to visit her Uncle Gordon at Haggard and loved his old and interesting home. Stephanie was only 12 but knew her own mind and, like her uncle, had little time for fools. He did like his niece, Stephanie though she understood him and his sense of humour. All in all, his life was a bit mysterious. His two brothers had kept in touch with him but had become a little distant because of these friends and because Gordon had a sense of humour that could offend he didn’t suffer fools either. A successful writer, his of horror fiction had brought him enough success to have enabled him to buy a large house, named Haggard, near Dublin, and had given him wealth, fame and some rather strange friends. Pages inside are designed to represent each archivist's actual papers, and are filled with brand-new information and illustrations from a group of carefully selected artists, including illustrator-extraordinaire Tom Percival as well as brand-new names working in multiple styles, to represent the incredible and broad world of Skulduggery Pleasant.Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy Gordon Edgley’s death was sudden and unexpected.

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