London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2002) 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." This begins with the disturbing news that Thursday's husband of only a month drowned 38 years ago. SIGNED on the title page. Frontispiece illustration. Winner of the Dilys Award. 372 pp. plus 3 pages with tongue-in-cheek ads,. ISBN: 0-340-82283x.