New York: The Viking Press, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An eccentric and clever bibliomystery - the first 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 and dated in the year of publication on the title page. 376 pp. ISBN: 0-670030643.