Jasper Fforde is a naughty man

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Sean wrote (a while back):
Is Comic Crime Fantasy an existing genre or has he invented it?

Dot:
Try Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, (Douglas Adams). You'll 
enjoy the Electric Monk. I'm not a great fan of detective fiction 
though, I've just got a soft spot for clever things that make me 
laugh, so there may be more and better stuff around. 

Dot:
> > And is that Thursday overtaking ostentatiously at the bottom of 
page 161, or have I missed something?
> 
Sean:
> Oooh well spotted Dot. I liked the back-references to Jack's 
drinking habit and the flying boat. It's nice how he's expanded 
the "universe" by following up some threads from earlier books.
> 

Dot:
Unfortunately I don't have WOLP with me to check the minutiae of how 
Caversham Heights evolved into TBOE, the idea is that Caversham 
Heights was unpublishable, and had to be rewritten isn't it? I 
didn't realise until the end that Lola and Spongg were the 
undeveloped characters (what were they called, generics?) lodging 
with Thursday in the seaplane, though I dimly remembered Arnold. Re-
reads in the offing, I think. Definitely looking forward to The 
Fourth Bear.