“Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured soul, and the only true dead man among them.”

—  Derek Landy

Source: Last Stand of Dead Men

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Irish children's writer 1974

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