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First Among Sequels

First Among Sequels

FantasyLiterary Fiction
Pages
416
Published
2007
Language
English

Synopsis

Literary detective Thursday Next returns in the fifth installment of this popular series, facing a new crisis in the Bookworld. When beloved literary characters like Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple are mysteriously killed off, Thursday realizes a serial killer is targeting fictional beings. To make matters worse, the Goliath Corporation is attempting to deregulate book travel, threatening the very fabric of literature. Thursday must venture into the most unusual narrative territories to save the literary universe from collapse.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

WhimsicalFunnySatiricalAdventurous
Portal FantasyMystery Box

Genres

Fantasy Literary Fiction Mystery Time Travel Amateur Sleuth

About the author

J
Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde is an English novelist, born in London in 1961 and now living in Wales. After working as a focus puller on films including GoldenEye and The Mask of Zorro, he published his first novel, The Eyre Affair, in 2001, after 76 publisher rejections. He is best known for the Thursday Next series, a run of literary comic fantasies set in an alternate Britain where characters can be entered inside books. He has also written the Nursery Crime novels featuring detective Jack Spratt, the dystop...

Characters

Thursday NextProtagonist
Goliath CorporationAntagonist
Friday NextSupporting
Sherlock HolmesCameo
Miss MarpleCameo
All characters in First Among Sequels