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Dirk is a small-scale con artist whose latest scheme is working as a "Holistic Detective", who believes in the "fundamental interconnectedness of all things" and how that means that ''anything'' might prove useful in solving the ''whole'' cases of his clients -- which, the way he sees it, means that he can do anything he likes, even take a three-week tropical vacation, and still charge it to the client as an expense. Of course, by [[Finagle's Law]], ''somehow'' every mundane little job he starts off working on in each novel is somehow actually connected to the main plot, and ''he's'' the one who has to solve everything.
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* [[Shout-Out]]: The BBC radio adaptions of the novels re-use several sound effects from ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', and include a reference to the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation.
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