Editing Douglas Adams (section)

====''Dirk Gently'' series====
[[File:Douglas Adams San Francisco.jpg|thumb|Adams in March 2000]]
Between Adams's first trip to [[Madagascar]] with [[Mark Carwardine]] in 1985, and their series of travels that formed the basis for the radio series and non-fiction book ''[[Last Chance to See]]'', Adams wrote two other novels with a new cast of characters. ''[[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]]'' was published in 1987, and was described by its author as "a kind of ghost-horror-detective-time-travel-romantic-comedy-epic, mainly concerned with mud, music and quantum mechanics".<ref>{{cite book |author=Gaiman, Neil |author-link=Neil Gaiman |title=Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |edition=second U.S. |publisher=Titan Books |year=2003 |page=169 |isbn=1-84023-742-2}}</ref>

A sequel, ''[[The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul]]'', was published a year later. It was Adams's first original work since ''So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish''. After the book tour, Adams set off on his round-the-world excursion, which supplied him with the material for ''Last Chance to See''. ''[[The Salmon of Doubt]]'' was incomplete when published posthumously.