Fourteen-year-old Valkyrie and the skeleton mage, Skulduggery Pleasant, try to foil a plot set in motion fifty years before to find and open the gate that will allow the Faceless Ones to return to this reality.
Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton detective, and his young assistant Valkyrie Cain, embark on a dangerous quest to keep the Diablerie, an evil secret organization, from opening the gates between Earth and the Faceless Ones.
Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton detective, and his young assistant Valkyrie Cain, embark on a dangerous quest to keep the Diablerie, an evil secret organization, from opening the gates between Earth and the Faceless Ones.