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The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime (Nursery Crime) (Paperback)
$12.88 - Save $2.13 (14%) - RRP $15.01 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Big Over EasyWhen D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, is found shattered to death, all the evidence points to his ex-wife, who has conveniently shot herself. But Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary remain unconvinced.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Published: 01 August 2006
- Format: Paperback 383 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Crime | Myth & Legend Told As Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780143037231 ISBN 10: 0143037234
- Sales rank: 111,376
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Full description for The Big Over Easy
Jasper Fforde does it again with a dazzling new series starring Inspector Jack Spratt, head of the Nursery Crime Division Jasper Fforde's bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every genre with its literary derring-do and brilliant flights of fancy. In "The Big Over Easy," Fforde takes a break from classic literature and tumbles into the seedy underbelly of nursery crime. Meet Inspector Jack Spratt, family man and head of the Nursery Crime Division. He's investigating the murder of ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Dumpty, found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Yes, the big egg is down, and all those brittle pieces sitting in the morgue point to foul play. BACKCOVER: ?A wonderfully readable riot . . . [A] cleverly plotted, magically overstuffed yet amazingly digestible book . . . This summer's perfect beach read for eggheads.? "?The Wall Street Journal" ?As if the Marx brothers were let loose in the children's section of a strange bookstore.? "?USA Today" ?Pythonesque . . . Like the Harry Potter and Lemony Snicket books, this one is abundantly playful without being truly geared for children. Anyone who has ever been read a nursery rhyme . . . can appreciate Mr. Fforde's outlandish joking.? ?Janet Maslin, "The New York Times"
