Books with title Skulduggery Pleasant: And he’s the good guy

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.Oh yeah. And dead.Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn't fiction.Pursued by evil forces intent on recovering a mysterious key, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source – the wisecracking skeleton of a dead wizard.When all hell breaks loose, it's lucky for Skulduggery that he's already dead. Though he's about to discover that being a skeleton doesn't stop you from being tortured, if the torturer is determined enough. And if there's anything Skulduggery hates, it's torture… Will evil win the day? Will Stephanie and Skulduggery stop bickering long enough to stop it? One thing's for sure: evil won't know what's hit it.

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant, ace detective, snappy dresser, razor-tongued with, crackerjack sorcerer & walking, taling, fire-throwing skeleton. As well as ally, protector, & mentor of Stephanie Edgley, a very unusual & darkly talented twelve-year-old. These two alone must defeat an all-consuming, ancient evil. The end of the world? Over his dead body!