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**The fifth installment in Jasper Fforde’s *New York Times *bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England** Jasper Fforde has thrilled readers everywhere with his gloriously outlandish novels in the Thursday Next and Nursery Crime series. And with another genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainmentis *Thursday Next: First Among Sequels*, Fforde’s famous literary detective is once again ready to make the world safe for fiction. Thursday Next is grappling with a host of problems in BookWorld: a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes, and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once- hilarious Thomas Hardy novels, to name just a few—all while captaining the ship *Moral Dilemma* and facing down her most vicious enemy yet: herself. Thursday’s zany investigations continue with *Our Thursdays is Missing*. Look for the five other bestselling Thursday Next novels, including Jasper Fforde’s latest bestseller, *The Woman Who Died A Lot*. Visit jasperfforde.com for a ffull window into the Ffordian world! **Watch a Windows Media trailer for this book.** **