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The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde - ISBN: 9780340897102
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Humpty’s cracked. Spratt’s on the case. Reading’s about to break.

The Big Over Easy

Nursery Crime Adventures 1

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    8 June 2006

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Summary

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 s…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780340897102
ISBN-10:0340897104
Author:Jasper Fforde
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:8 June 2006
Weight:283g
Dimensions:198mm x 135mm x 26mm
Series:Nursery Crime
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Critics Review

Very accomplished indeed.

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

Now humour is notoriously subjective so what I’ve just described might just sound plain daft to you. But I love it. THE BIG OVER EASY is great not just because it’s very funny but also because it works properly as a whodunnit. Comic genius. - Observer,Peter Guttridge

More twists and turns than Christie … embellished with the rich details of a Dickens or Pratchett. A real treat. - Independent

The combination of fantasy and a (more or less) classic murder … makes a wild and enjoyable change - Sunday Telegraph

Very accomplished indeed. - Guardian

Fforde offers a cascade of puns, plays on words, surrealism, satire and verbal virtuosity based on children’s rhymes and stories. Astonishingly, he stays funny for 400 pages … Even more amazingly, there’s a real plot there, a proper mystery with a surprise solution - The Times

About The Author

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.

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