What is the author's style in the novel, The Well of Lost Plots?

The Well of Lost Plots is written in language that is a cross between a crime/detective story and a literary novel. Fforde uses heavy allusion to help create the BookWorld. There are words used for the purposes of the BookWorld, such as Jurisfiction and grammasites, as well as invented creatures, such as grammasites. Fforde draws from real words and ideas to create his new words and ideas