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The Big Over Easy: Nursery Crime Adventures 1
Jasper Fforde
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Description for The Big Over Easy: Nursery Crime Adventures 1
paperback. A Sunday Times bestseller in hardback, THE BIG OVER EASY heralds the start of an ingenious new series from the creator of the international phenomenon Thursday Next. Series: Nursery Crime Adventures. Num Pages: 416 pages, b/w line illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 288.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Series
Nursery Crime Adventures
Condition
New
Weight
278g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340897102
SKU
V9780340897102
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring out of the window and sucking the end of a pencil. He lives and works in Wales and has a passion for aviation.
Reviews for The Big Over Easy: Nursery Crime Adventures 1
Consistently clever
Publishers Weekly
I love it. THE BIG OVER EASY is great not just because it's very funny...but also because it works properly as a whodunit...Comic genius.
Observer
A riot of puns, in-jokes and literary allusions that Fforde carries off with aplomb
Daily Mail
A riot of puns, in-jokes and literary allusions that ... Read more
Publishers Weekly
I love it. THE BIG OVER EASY is great not just because it's very funny...but also because it works properly as a whodunit...Comic genius.
Observer
A riot of puns, in-jokes and literary allusions that Fforde carries off with aplomb
Daily Mail
A riot of puns, in-jokes and literary allusions that ... Read more