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Anton. Thursday Next is a prominent if not troublesome member of SO-27. Wednesday is the name of Next's mother, despite her being born on a Sunday. Mycroft is Thursday's uncle. Landen is eventually Next's husband.
32. SO-27 is Literary Detectives. Information about departments below SO-20 is classifed.
Martin Chuzzlewit. The first edition manuscript was stolen from Gad's Hill Palace.
Mr Quaverley . He was a minor character until his removal from the book. All that remains of him is his hat in Mrs Todger's boarding house.
Spec-op's 17. Spec-op's 17 is affectionately know as Suckers and Biters.
Richard III. The play was performed for the audience by the audience at the Ritz theatre.
plasma rifle. Jack Schitt, a member of the Goliath Corporation, was unfortunately trapped in a copy of Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Raven'.
Daisy. Mr Briggs stops Landen and Daisy's wedding as Daisy is already married. Mr Briggs is a character from 'Jane Eyre'.
The Well of Lost Plots. "The Eyre Affair" was the first book in the series. In it, Thursday Next must chase Acheron Hades, who has found a way into novels and who kidnaps Jane Eyre.
Aornis. The Aornis is one of the rivers of Hades. Acheron's sister Aornis pursues Thursday in order to avenge her brother's death.
Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham hails from Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations," and she teaches Thursday how to "read" her way into books.
A Dickens character. In Thursday's world, bringing extinct animals back into being was once all the rage. Her dodo, Pickwick, draws her name from Dickens's novel "The Pickwick Papers."
A laundry label. From the laundry label, a land inhabited by large laundry icons, they move onto the washing machine manual, at length returning to "Great Expectations."
Supreme Evil Being. Thursday's fellow SpecOps agent Spike hunts, in addition to vampires, SEBs, each of whom considers itself to be THE Supreme Evil Being.
The ChronoGuard. Her father, however, went "rogue," and he was eradicated by the ChronoGuard, so that he was officially never born.
The Raven. In "Eyre Affair," Thursday imprisoned him in "The Raven," using her uncle's prose portal. But when Goliath eradicates her husband, she is willing to find a way back in to free Schitt in exchange for Landen's life. Goliath, not surprisingly, double crosses her.
Cordelia. Cordelia convinces Thursday to make a television appearance, but every subject is so thoroughly censored, that Thursday ends up only being able to discuss her dodo.
Dream Topping. Strawberry flavored Dream Topping, to be exact. Forensics had difficulty identifying the substance, but, in the end, a simple taste test revealed the secret.
in the state of Denmark. "Hamlet", of course. Though, if you've read the book, you'll realise that the question of authorship is not straightforward. Which of the cloned Shgakespeafes penned these words??? Denmark is the source of much of the conflict in the book, resolved by the Queen of Denmark's performance at George Formby's state funeral.
Lady Emma Hamilton. Emma Hamilton and Hamlet are both staying with Thursday's mum. At least now she's not having to worry about Emma Hamilton and her husband...
Friday Parke-Laine and Alan. Friday's father is Landen Parke-Laine, who was eradicated in "Lost in a Good Book", leaving behind no trace of his existence other than Friday. Landen's parents were Houson and Bildon, but Thursday resisted the temptation to call her son Hotelon. Neither Thursday nor Pickwick seem able to control the delinquent dodo, Alan.
St. Zvlkx. The victory turns out to be more important than you might imagine, bringing the downfall of the tyrant Goliath whose latest money-spinner and power trip is to rebrand themselves as a religion. 'Small events have large consequences', remember!
Dauntsey Services. Formby was rescued by Spike and Thursday before he could be taken 'northside'. He believes it was some kind of motorway services theme park. Leigh Delamere, you will remember, was named for the mother of one of Acheron Hades' sidekicks in "The Eyre Affair".
The Windowmaker. There was a mix-up with the printing...
Cindy was put into coma by an accident with a falling piano stool intended for Thursday. Poor Spike thought she was just a librarian. It's always the quiet ones.
Trafalgar. Victory on the Victory! Thursday and Corporal Next aren't the only time-travellers there - a documentary film crew from the twenty-second century are ahead of them. That's one I'm setting the video for.
Reading Whackers. Croquet, as played in Thursday's universe, is a fast, attacking game requiring the presence of legal services to determine offside disputes. Almost as malicious as real croquet, then.
| What is the name of the detectives in the Nursery Crime Division books "The Big Over Easy" and "The Fourth Bear"? | The Works of Jasper Fforde
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Jack Spratt and Mary Mary. Jack isn't your typical detective. Not only does he have a happy family but he is also a character from fiction with it being revealed that he is in fact Jack Sprat ("he ate no fat"). Jack also has similarities to the Jack from "Jack and the Beanstalk" and "Jack the Giant Killer".
Jack's wife Madeline has trouble coming to terms with Jack being a PDR (Person of Dubious Reality). However as Madeline is actually Madeline Usher from Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" it is assumed she would've taken this better if she'd known the truth about herself.
It is assumed that Mary Mary is a nursery character herself, being featured in the rhyme "Mary Mary Quite Contrary" however this is not revealed in the first two books.
Female. Although it is assumed that Pickwick is a boy (so named for the Dickens work "The Pickwick Papers") when Pickwick lays an egg it is revealed that Thursday's assumptions were incorrect. Pickwick has a rebellious boy whom they name Alan.
| Who DID NOT live with Thursday in the house boat in the unpublished novel "Caversham Heights"?
Note: This is in "The Well of Lost Plots". | The Works of Jasper Fforde
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Landen. Landen was eradicated by the Goliath Corporation because Thursday trapped their employee Jack Shitt in "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.
Lola and Randolph were the generics living in the house boat.
Gran was Thursday's "Grandmother" (it is later revealed to be a future version of herself) who is there to make sure Thursday doesn't succumb to the mind worm implanted in her brain by Aornis Hades.
According to Fforde, "The Big Over Easy" is the result of the book 'Caversham Heights' featured in "The Well of Lost Plots."
He hatched. Although he did fall and he was shot, it is revealed that because of a genetic experiment his actual cause of death was by hatching.
Stalker and writer. Millon De Floss is revealed to be Thursday's official stalker as well as a particular ally of Thursday's in difficult situations, in particular the Shakespeare clones. He has written Thursday's biography and is also credited with writing most of the excerpts featured at the beginning of chapters in the Thursday Next Series.
His name is a play on the title "Mill on the Floss" by George Eliot.
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