The first in a series of outlandishly clever adventures featuring the resourceful, fearless literary detective Thursday Nextâ€'a New York Times bestseller! In Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is b