New York: Viking Penguin, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An eccentric and clever bibliomystery - the second featuring Special Operative Thursday Next, a literary detective, whose job is to keep characters in books from being stolen. Set in "1985 Great Britain where time travel is routine, cloning is reality and literature is taken very, very seriously." SIGNED on a blank preliminary page, Color plate. Winner of the Dilys Award. 399 pp. ISBN: 0-670-031909.