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First published in 2004 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Copyright © Jasper Fforde, 2004

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Frontispiece and text illustrations by Maggy and Stewart Roberts

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Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Fforde, Jasper.
Thursday Next in Something rotten : a novel / Jasper Fforde.
p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-440-69596-4

1. Next, Thursday (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Characters and characteristics
in literature—Fiction. 3. Women detectives—Great Britain—Fiction.
I. Title: Something rotten. II. Title.
PR6106.F67T484 2004
823’.914—dc22 2004049497

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