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Fforde, Jasper., Viking, 2004, c2003, 1st U.S. Edition, 1st printing, boards (hard cover), small remainder mark on bottom edge o/w fine with fine dj, 379 pp, 8vo, ISBN: 0670032891, 'The third installment in the Thursday Next series', 'Once again, it's up to the ever-resourceful gal detective to track down the killer' (more information)

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Pr, 2004 Hardcover. Sound, clean & very nice copy, hint of edgewear. Jacket is bright & clean, light rubbing/edgewear. Not price clipped.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo. (more information)

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Fforde, Jasper., Viking, 2004, c2003, 1st U.S. Edition, 1st printing, boards (hard cover), remainder mark on bottom edge o/w fine with fine dj, 379 pp, 8vo, ISBN: 0670032891, 'The eagerly anticipated third installment in the Thursday Next series; Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime' (more information)

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New York: Viking Press, 2004 375PP + mock ads: Fforde's third book in its first edition/later printing. In near mitn condition.. Half Cloth. Near Mint/Near Mint. (more information)

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Viking, 2003. very minor bottom spine crease, tiny creases pp. 41-44, otherwise a near fine book and fine dustjacket. Britain's Prose Resource Operative, Thursday Next, has had one adventure too many touring the Western Literary canon. So when she spends some time in the Character Exchange Program down in the hidden parts of the Well of Lost Plots, she expects life to be uneventful. Not to be. This linguistic free-for-all attracts grammasites of all stripes who gather plot devices that are hawked on the black market, and poorly written books (like the one in which she is hiding) are thrown away. As frosting on the cake, a murderer is preying on Jurisdiction personnel. No one is safe from danger, especially Thursday. Fun! . ISBN: 0670032891. 1st Edition. Mystery. (more information)

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 2004 Hardback is in new condition, never read, slight shelf wear.. Book three in the Thursday Next series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Retail. (more information)

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NY: Viking Penguin. Fine in Fine dust jacket 2004. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 375 pages; Fine/Fine. Full number sequence. Handsome gray and black boards with bright red metallic lettering. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is great! In protective sleeve. An excellent gift! The eagerly anticipated third installment in the best selling Thursday Night series - genre blending of crime fiction, fantasy and top-drawer literary entertainment. . (more information)

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N.Y.: Viking, 2003. First edition, HB. Fine in Fine DJ.. ISBN: 0-670-03289-1. First Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)

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NY: Viking, 2003. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. 'Signed by the Author'. Fine in fine dustjacket but for small felt-tip mark bottom. Unread. ISBN: 0670032891 <em>Third book in the 'Thursday Next' series---top-drawer blend of crime fiction, fantasy and literary entertainment.</em> (more information)

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Viking, 2004. Hardback. 1st Am. Ed., f/f Series Character: Det. Thursday Next Dust Jackets have protective plastic covers (more information)

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New York: Viking Penquin, 2003. By the same author as "The Eyre Affair" and "Lost in a Good Book"; a Thursday Next novel. Gray paper boards bound in black paper at spine; red lettering on spine only. No marking inside or out. Unclipped dj has no blemishes. 375 pages.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York: The Viking Press, (2004.) . First printing. . Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot, crease to the edge of one page.) . The third novel in the Thursday Night series - Britain's Prose Resource Operative who is "literally and literaturally at her wit's end - not to mention pregnant" - each of these books are an incredible blend of crime fiction, fantasy, word play and literary entertainment. Color plate by Maggie Roberts; dustjacket art by Viktor Koen. 375 pp plus 3 pages of "ads" for Jurisfiction. (more information)

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New York: Viking, 2003. 1st edition.. Hardcover. NF./NF.. yes. A Thursday Next novel. Signed by the author on a front endpaper. Heavy book may require more postage. Hardcover (more information)

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New York: Viking, 2004. "A Thursday Next Novel"; light remainder mark; 375pp. Unread copy.. ISBN: 0670032891. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Fiction. (more information)

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Viking. Fine, dust jacket only. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670032891 . SIGNED First American edition, first printing. Mr Fforde signed the inside title page at the 2007 International Festival of Authors Virtually no wear to the jacket!!! Jacket is NOT price clipped. The covers are clean and bright, edges are sharp. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. Pages are clean and white. Binding is straight and tight. NO remainder mark.; Signed By Author . (more information)

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New York: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0670032891 . Cover Art; Spine ends & corners of book cover have extremely light bumping & rubbing. Bottom spine end of book cover has one crease. Gray paper covered boards have a black paper spine with gilt red lettering. Text pages are clean & bright. Endpapers are a plain white color. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of very light bumping & rubbing. Basically in as-new condition. "Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. After two rollicking New York Times - bestselling adventures through the Western literary canon, Britain's Prose Resource Operative was literally and literaturally at her wit's end - not to mention pregnant. So what could be more welcome than a restful stint in the Character Exchange Program down in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots?" . (more information)

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Viking, 2004, 1st . Hardcover . NF/NF. SIGNED BY AUTHOR FFEP. Bit of edgewear/bumps. DJ w/ some rubbing; in new Brodart protector. A Thursday Next Novel. (more information)

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New York: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0670032891 . Cover Art; Spine ends & corners of book cover have extremely light bumping & rubbing. Gray paper covered boards have a black paper spine with gilt red lettering. Text pages are clean & bright. Endpapers are a plain white color. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of very light bumping & rubbing. Basically in as-new condition. "Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. After two rollicking New York Times - bestselling adventures through the Western literary canon, Britain's Prose Resource Operative was literally and literaturally at her wit's end - not to mention pregnant. So what could be more welcome than a restful stint in the Character Exchange Program down in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots?" . (more information)

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London, U.K.: Simon & Schuster, 2004. The eagerly-anticipated third installment in the 'Thursday Next', a genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy and top-drawer literary entertainment, following THE EYRE AFFAIR and LOST IN A GOOD BOOK. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.. ISBN: 0670032891. First American Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FICTION MYSTERY DETECTIVE WOMEN SLEUTHS. (more information)

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New York: Viking, 2004. First US edition hard cover. Unread. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Science Fiction. (#9484) ISBN: 0670032891 Thursday Next #3. Jasper Fforde has done it again in this absolutely brilliant feat of literary showmanship. Join Thursday Next as she encounters some of the greatest characters in literature and battles deadly villians who literally leap off the page. When it comes to sheer wit, literate fantasy, and effervescent originality, nobody can touch this new Ffordian tour de force. The last chapter is new to this edition. (more information)

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New York: Viking Press, 2004. B1st edition, 1st printing, with corresponding number line. Book is in Fine condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges are clean. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Is covered by Mylar Brodart. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks.. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. (more information)

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Viking Penguin, 2003. hardcover. First American Edition. Thursday Next is back, and she needs a vacation. She takes a restful stint in the Character Exchange Program down in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots. However, Thursday discovers that the Well of Lost Plots is a veritable linguistic free-for-all where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black market and lousy books are scrapped for salvage. To top it all off, a murderer is stalking Jurisfiction personnel and nobody is safe. Black remainder mark on bottom edge of leaves. Jacket shows light soiling and very light creasing along top edges. (more information)

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 2004 Clean and tight with no store stamps, two black remainder marks on the top and bottom of the pages. Signed in my presence by Fforde, the third Thursday Next novel.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. (more information)

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New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003. First edition hard cover. Unread. This copy signed by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. In Brodart.. Science Fiction. (#10809) ISBN: 0670032891 Thursday Next #3. Jasper Fforde has done it again in this absolutely brilliant feat of literary showmanship. Join Thursday Next as she encounters some of the greatest characters in literature and battles deadly villians who literally leap off the page. When it comes to sheer wit, literate fantasy, and effervescent originality, nobody can touch this new Ffordian tour de force. The last chapter is new to this edition. (more information)

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 2004. Fine in fine DJ protected by Brodart mylar dj cover. Signed simply 'Jasper' on full title page. From the Publisher Jasper Fforde has done it again in this absolutely brilliant feat of literary showmanship. Join Thursday Next as she encounters some of the greatest characters in literature and battles deadly villians who literally leap off the page. When it comes to sheer wit, literate fantasy, and effervescent originality, nobody can touch this new Ffordian tour de force. -Lost in a Good Book appeared on The New York Times extended bestseller list and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller -The Eyre Affair was a New York Times bestseller and a Book Sense 76 Pick -Penguin will publish Lost in a Good Book simultaneously -The fourth book in the series is forthcoming from Viking From The Critics Publisher's Weekly In this delicious sequel to The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book, Fforde's redoubtable (and now throwing-up-pregnant) heroine Thursday Next once again does battle with philistine bibliophobes, taking a furlough from her duties as a SpecOps Literary Detective to vacation in the Well of Lost Plots, the 26 noisome sub-basements of the Great Library. Pursued by her memory-modifying nemesis Aornis Hades, Thursday joins Jurisfiction's Character Exchange Program, filling in for "Mary," sidekick to the world-weary detective hero of Caversham Heights, a hilariously awful police procedural. At the imminent launch of UltraWord, the vaunted "Last Word" in Story Operating Systems, Thursday's friend and mentor Miss Havisham is gruesomely killed, and Thursday gamely sets out to restore order to her underground world, where technophiles ruthlessly recycle unpublished books and sell plot devices and stock characters on the black market. Meanwhile, Aornis is doing her fiendish worst to make Thursday forget Landen, her missing husband and father of her child. If this all sounds a bit confusing, it is-until the reader gets the hang of Fforde's intricate mix of parody, social satire and sheer gut-busting fantasy. Marvelous creations like syntax-slaughtering grammasites and the murderous Minotaur roam this unusual novel's pages, and Fforde's fictional epigraphs, like his minihistory of "book operating systems," are worth the cover price in themselves. Fforde's sidesplitting sendup of an increasingly antibookish society is a sheer joy. (Feb.) Forecast: Despite the rarefied nature of his spoofing, Fforde has attracted a substantial and loyal readership. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Library Journal Thursday Next (The Eyre Affair; Lost in a Good Book) needs a vacation. After saving Jane Eyre, stopping two criminal masterminds, and being hounded by the Goliath Corporation, she just wants to lie low until she can rescue her missing husband. Taking refuge in an unpublished police procedural, she continues working for Jurisfiction, investigating a murder that involves the highest levels of literary police. While Thursday learns the ropes of BookWorld, including managing nursery-rhyme characters on strike and conducting anger-management sessions for the protagonists of Wuthering Heights, she tries to keep her memories of Landen alive and her pulp novel from being stripped and thrown into the Text Sea. Fforde has settled comfortably into series mode, producing another fun romp in an alternate universe where books are more real than reality; there's a pun on every other page and a galaxy of literary and pop references to keep the reader's head spinning. Escaped minotaurs, spelling viruses, problems with software upgrades, and Spam for footnotes all contribute to the fun. This U.S. version includes a bonus chapter detailing yet another of Thursday's adventures. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/15/03.]-Devon Thomas, Hass MS&L, Ann Arbor, MI Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Kirkus Reviews Third course in a feast of hyperliterary alternate-reality thrillers (The Eyre Affair, 2002, etc.) may prove too rich for some stomachs. Fforde's story takes place in several parallel universes that manage, against all laws of logic and geometry, to intersect at many, many points. Our heroine, literary detective Thursday Next, is the nexus of this strangely wired cosmos. Thursday has just returned from the pages of Jane Eyre, in which she foiled archvillain Acheron Hades' attempt to steal the ending. Now pregnant (by a dead veteran of the Crimean War) and badly in need of rest, she requests an assignment in the Character Exchange Program and is sent to fill in for Mary Jones, detective in a dreadful unpublished thriller. Like all unpublished books, Caversham Heights exists in a kind of limbo in the Well of Lost Plots, a warren of sub-basements in the Great Library where all books are born, but few see the light of day. Thursday works her way through Mary's role in the hopeless plot, glad of a safe job for change, but she soon finds plenty of extratextual distractions that hint at trouble ahead. Within the ranks of Jurisfiction (a kind of FBI of the text world), a string of murders begins to claim the lives of various authorities connected with a new process of plot development. Thursday learns that her late husband is not dead at all but was in fact "eradicated" at the behest of rogue elements within Jurisfiction. Between teaching her "generic" houseboys Ibb and Obb how to cook, fending off hostile grammasites (literary parasites that infest a plot with gerunds), and facing Jurisfiction charges that she changed the ending of Jane Eyre, Thursday still has to find the time to solve thevarious crimes now springing up within and without the text. For instance, who stole the commas from Joyce's Ulysses? Like anchovies, Wagner, and Helmut Newton: will greatly appeal to people with unusual tastes-and befuddle everyone else. Agents: Eric Simonoff & Tif Loehnis/Janklow & Nesbit.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. 1st Impression.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. (more information)

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 2004. Fine in fine DJ protected by Brodart mylar dj cover. Signed simply 'Jasper' on full title page. From the Publisher Jasper Fforde has done it again in this absolutely brilliant feat of literary showmanship. Join Thursday Next as she encounters some of the greatest characters in literature and battles deadly villians who literally leap off the page. When it comes to sheer wit, literate fantasy, and effervescent originality, nobody can touch this new Ffordian tour de force. -Lost in a Good Book appeared on The New York Times extended bestseller list and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller -The Eyre Affair was a New York Times bestseller and a Book Sense 76 Pick -Penguin will publish Lost in a Good Book simultaneously -The fourth book in the series is forthcoming from Viking From The Critics Publisher's Weekly In this delicious sequel to The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book, Fforde's redoubtable (and now throwing-up-pregnant) heroine Thursday Next once again does battle with philistine bibliophobes, taking a furlough from her duties as a SpecOps Literary Detective to vacation in the Well of Lost Plots, the 26 noisome sub-basements of the Great Library. Pursued by her memory-modifying nemesis Aornis Hades, Thursday joins Jurisfiction's Character Exchange Program, filling in for "Mary," sidekick to the world-weary detective hero of Caversham Heights, a hilariously awful police procedural. At the imminent launch of UltraWord, the vaunted "Last Word" in Story Operating Systems, Thursday's friend and mentor Miss Havisham is gruesomely killed, and Thursday gamely sets out to restore order to her underground world, where technophiles ruthlessly recycle unpublished books and sell plot devices and stock characters on the black market. Meanwhile, Aornis is doing her fiendish worst to make Thursday forget Landen, her missing husband and father of her child. If this all sounds a bit confusing, it is-until the reader gets the hang of Fforde's intricate mix of parody, social satire and sheer gut-busting fantasy. Marvelous creations like syntax-slaughtering grammasites and the murderous Minotaur roam this unusual novel's pages, and Fforde's fictional epigraphs, like his minihistory of "book operating systems," are worth the cover price in themselves. Fforde's sidesplitting sendup of an increasingly antibookish society is a sheer joy. (Feb.) Forecast: Despite the rarefied nature of his spoofing, Fforde has attracted a substantial and loyal readership. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Library Journal Thursday Next (The Eyre Affair; Lost in a Good Book) needs a vacation. After saving Jane Eyre, stopping two criminal masterminds, and being hounded by the Goliath Corporation, she just wants to lie low until she can rescue her missing husband. Taking refuge in an unpublished police procedural, she continues working for Jurisfiction, investigating a murder that involves the highest levels of literary police. While Thursday learns the ropes of BookWorld, including managing nursery-rhyme characters on strike and conducting anger-management sessions for the protagonists of Wuthering Heights, she tries to keep her memories of Landen alive and her pulp novel from being stripped and thrown into the Text Sea. Fforde has settled comfortably into series mode, producing another fun romp in an alternate universe where books are more real than reality; there's a pun on every other page and a galaxy of literary and pop references to keep the reader's head spinning. Escaped minotaurs, spelling viruses, problems with software upgrades, and Spam for footnotes all contribute to the fun. This U.S. version includes a bonus chapter detailing yet another of Thursday's adventures. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/15/03.]-Devon Thomas, Hass MS&L, Ann Arbor, MI Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Kirkus Reviews Third course in a feast of hyperliterary alternate-reality thrillers (The Eyre Affair, 2002, etc.) may prove too rich for some stomachs. Fforde's story takes place in several parallel universes that manage, against all laws of logic and geometry, to intersect at many, many points. Our heroine, literary detective Thursday Next, is the nexus of this strangely wired cosmos. Thursday has just returned from the pages of Jane Eyre, in which she foiled archvillain Acheron Hades' attempt to steal the ending. Now pregnant (by a dead veteran of the Crimean War) and badly in need of rest, she requests an assignment in the Character Exchange Program and is sent to fill in for Mary Jones, detective in a dreadful unpublished thriller. Like all unpublished books, Caversham Heights exists in a kind of limbo in the Well of Lost Plots, a warren of sub-basements in the Great Library where all books are born, but few see the light of day. Thursday works her way through Mary's role in the hopeless plot, glad of a safe job for change, but she soon finds plenty of extratextual distractions that hint at trouble ahead. Within the ranks of Jurisfiction (a kind of FBI of the text world), a string of murders begins to claim the lives of various authorities connected with a new process of plot development. Thursday learns that her late husband is not dead at all but was in fact "eradicated" at the behest of rogue elements within Jurisfiction. Between teaching her "generic" houseboys Ibb and Obb how to cook, fending off hostile grammasites (literary parasites that infest a plot with gerunds), and facing Jurisfiction charges that she changed the ending of Jane Eyre, Thursday still has to find the time to solve thevarious crimes now springing up within and without the text. For instance, who stole the commas from Joyce's Ulysses? Like anchovies, Wagner, and Helmut Newton: will greatly appeal to people with unusual tastes-and befuddle everyone else. Agents: Eric Simonoff & Tif Loehnis/Janklow & Nesbit.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. 1st Impression.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. (more information)

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 2004. Fine in fine DJ protected by Brodart mylar dj cover. Signed simply 'Jasper' on blank tipped in signature page. From the Publisher Jasper Fforde has done it again in this absolutely brilliant feat of literary showmanship. Join Thursday Next as she encounters some of the greatest characters in literature and battles deadly villians who literally leap off the page. When it comes to sheer wit, literate fantasy, and effervescent originality, nobody can touch this new Ffordian tour de force. -Lost in a Good Book appeared on The New York Times extended bestseller list and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller -The Eyre Affair was a New York Times bestseller and a Book Sense 76 Pick -Penguin will publish Lost in a Good Book simultaneously -The fourth book in the series is forthcoming from Viking From The Critics Publisher's Weekly In this delicious sequel to The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book, Fforde's redoubtable (and now throwing-up-pregnant) heroine Thursday Next once again does battle with philistine bibliophobes, taking a furlough from her duties as a SpecOps Literary Detective to vacation in the Well of Lost Plots, the 26 noisome sub-basements of the Great Library. Pursued by her memory-modifying nemesis Aornis Hades, Thursday joins Jurisfiction's Character Exchange Program, filling in for "Mary," sidekick to the world-weary detective hero of Caversham Heights, a hilariously awful police procedural. At the imminent launch of UltraWord, the vaunted "Last Word" in Story Operating Systems, Thursday's friend and mentor Miss Havisham is gruesomely killed, and Thursday gamely sets out to restore order to her underground world, where technophiles ruthlessly recycle unpublished books and sell plot devices and stock characters on the black market. Meanwhile, Aornis is doing her fiendish worst to make Thursday forget Landen, her missing husband and father of her child. If this all sounds a bit confusing, it is-until the reader gets the hang of Fforde's intricate mix of parody, social satire and sheer gut-busting fantasy. Marvelous creations like syntax-slaughtering grammasites and the murderous Minotaur roam this unusual novel's pages, and Fforde's fictional epigraphs, like his minihistory of "book operating systems," are worth the cover price in themselves. Fforde's sidesplitting sendup of an increasingly antibookish society is a sheer joy. (Feb.) Forecast: Despite the rarefied nature of his spoofing, Fforde has attracted a substantial and loyal readership. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Library Journal Thursday Next (The Eyre Affair; Lost in a Good Book) needs a vacation. After saving Jane Eyre, stopping two criminal masterminds, and being hounded by the Goliath Corporation, she just wants to lie low until she can rescue her missing husband. Taking refuge in an unpublished police procedural, she continues working for Jurisfiction, investigating a murder that involves the highest levels of literary police. While Thursday learns the ropes of BookWorld, including managing nursery-rhyme characters on strike and conducting anger-management sessions for the protagonists of Wuthering Heights, she tries to keep her memories of Landen alive and her pulp novel from being stripped and thrown into the Text Sea. Fforde has settled comfortably into series mode, producing another fun romp in an alternate universe where books are more real than reality; there's a pun on every other page and a galaxy of literary and pop references to keep the reader's head spinning. Escaped minotaurs, spelling viruses, problems with software upgrades, and Spam for footnotes all contribute to the fun. This U.S. version includes a bonus chapter detailing yet another of Thursday's adventures. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/15/03.]-Devon Thomas, Hass MS&L, Ann Arbor, MI Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Kirkus Reviews Third course in a feast of hyperliterary alternate-reality thrillers (The Eyre Affair, 2002, etc.) may prove too rich for some stomachs. Fforde's story takes place in several parallel universes that manage, against all laws of logic and geometry, to intersect at many, many points. Our he