Jasper Fforde has delighted book lovers since the character of literary sleuth Thursday Next first appeared. Now, in the fifth installment of this popular series, Fforde blends elements of mystery, campy science fiction and screwball fantasy. Packed with word play, bizarre and entertaining subplots, and old-fashioned suspense, Thursdays quest to save literature unites the authors prodigious imagination, satirical gifts, literate humor, and sheer silliness.