Updated: A wonderful page-turner. One of my favorite books of all time. Just finished a reread of this one. When it showed up as an ebook bargain, I couldn't resist getting a second copy. The hardback has a permanent spot on my library shelf (a rare thing for fiction, which I usually move on to friends or charity). It was just as funny as the first time around. Luckily it's been several years between readings, so I didn't remember the details which can spoil a "mystery." Highly recommend this one to anyone who likes time travel stories and enjoys a sophisticated sense of humor. 
 From the dust jacket: 
 At once a mystery novel, a time-travel adventure and a Shakespearean comedy, To Say Nothing of the Dog is a witty imaginative tale of misconceptions, misunderstandings and the distance between two points is never a straight line and the secret to the universe truly lies "in the details."