The Big Over Easy
Nursery Crime Adventures 1
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4.7 • 37 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
‘It looks like he died from injuries sustained during a fall...'
Bestselling author Jasper Fforde begins an effervescent new series. '
It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery favourite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town.
Following the pathologist's careful reconstruction of Humpty's shell, Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his Sergeant Mary Mary are soon grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, the illegal Bearnaise sauce market, corporate politics and the cut and thrust world of international Chiropody.
As Jack and Mary stumble around the streets of Reading in Jack's Lime Green Austin Allegro, the clues pile up, but Jack has his own problems to deal with. And on top of everything else, the JellyMan is coming to town...
Customer Reviews
Tearjerker
I was laughing so hard I ended up crying in the tube. A real tearjerker. It is difficult to real pinpoint everything that book gets right: from the alternative universe with nursery rhyme characters to the police investigation, the hilarious sub-plots or the press briefs at the beginning of every chapter.
Absolutely Great
A Marlowesque story with a mysterious death, a private eye with problems and a rival you just have to hate. All set with nursery rhyme characters - this gag surely cannot be maintained throughout the whole book. It can - and it works so well. You keep turning the pages as you really want to know what happens next and on the way through you are entertained with a legion of great puns, great humour and great story. You'll love it.