Fforde, Jasper

"Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs an agency for underemployed magicians in a world where magic is fading away, but when visions of the death of the world's last dragon begin, all signs point to Jennifer--and Big Magic"--Provided by publisher.

Detective Inspector Jack Spratt, head of the Nursery Crime Division of the Reading police force, teams up with his new partner Mary Mary to investigate the suspicious death of Humpty Dumpty, an ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist who was found shattered to death in a bad part of town.

Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to apprehend a criminal who is murdering characters from works of literature and has chosen Jane Eyre as his next victim.

While the Stupidity Surplus overflows in England, literary detective Thursday Next deals with her defiant assistant, who insists on turning classic literature into reality television, and must also find a way to motivate her teenage son and smooth out the mess being made by the Council of Genres.

Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to apprehend a criminal who is murdering characters from works of literature and has chosen Jane Eyre as his next victim.

Thursday Next faces a new set of problems in the BookWorld, both at home and at work, and struggles to keep her wits as she navigates the treacherous world around her.

Thursday Next, an English detective who mingles--literally--in the world of fiction, seeks to have her husband resurrected when her hands become full with her toddler son and her new companion, Prince Hamlet, and finds herself juggling Shakespeare clones and trying to save the world through a high-stakes croquet tournament.

Detective Jack Spratt and Sergeant Mary Mary have been demoted to Missing Persons because of Jack's poor judgment on a prior case, but that does not stop the team from trying to track down a psychopath who is terrorizing the streets of Reading.

Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to find out who drowned her husband of a month thirty-eight years ago while interacting with classic literature.

Detective Inspector Jack Spratt, head of the Nursery Crime Division of the Reading police force, teams up with his new partner Mary Mary to investigate the suspicious death of Humpty Dumpty, an ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist who was found shattered to death in a bad part of town.