Just when you thought he'd stretched his astonishing imagination to the limit, Jasper Fforde does it again with this dazzling new series. Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime, 1) by Jasper Fforde, 2006, Hodder edition, Paperback in English. The familiar and utterly transformed characters and world of nursery crime is pure ingenious fun. Before long Jack and Mary find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, bullion smuggling, problems with beanstalks, titans seeking asylum, and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody.Īnd on top of all that, the JellyMan is coming to town. All the evidence points to his ex-wife, who has conveniently shot herself.īut Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary remain unconvinced, a sentiment not shared with their superiors at the Reading Police Department, who are still smarting over their failure to convict the Three Pigs of murdering Mr. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict, and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. It's Easter in Reading, a bad time for eggs, and no one can remember the last sunny day. In The Big Over Easy, the first book of the series, Jack Spratt and his new partner Mary Mary are investigating the murder of Humpty Dumpty, a philandering older man (well, egg) who fell off his wall and cracked into hundreds of pieces.
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