num_pages: 394
description: The popularity of Jasper Fforde's one-of-a-kind series builds with each new book. Now in the fourth installment, the resourceful literary detective Thursday Next returns to Swindon from the BookWorld accompanied by her son Friday and none other than the dithering Hamlet. But returning to SpecOps is no snap-as outlaw fictioner Yorrick Kaine plots for absolute power, the return of Swindon's patron saint foretells doom, and, if that isn't bad enough, The Merry Wives of Windsor is becoming entangled with Hamlet. Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop this hostile takeover? Can she vanquish Kaine and prevent the world from plunging into war? And will she ever find reliable child care? Find out in this totally original, action-packed romp, sure to be another escapist thrill for Jasper Fforde's legions of fans.
language: English
title: Something Rotten
titlecomplete: Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
characters: Thursday Next, Friday Next, Landen Parke-Laine, Hamlet, Pickwick
genres: Comedy, Books About Books, Fantasy, Mystery, Alternate History, Time Travel, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 34740
places: United Kingdom
series: Thursday Next
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Dilys Award
publisher: Viking Penguin