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The big Over Easy : : a Nursery Crime

Fforde, Jasper. Book - 2005 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.8 out of 5

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Jack Spratt submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 29, 2013, 12:43pm In the first of Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime series, Jack Spratt investigates the murder of Humpty Dumpty. Jack (yes, the one from the child's rhyme, although he's trying to hide that fact) soon discovers that Humpty's wife was probably also murdered, and a possible witness to Humpty's murder has since been killed, too.

The Nursery Crime series takes place in a fictional universe similar to Thursday Next's. Although it's not exactly the same universe, Thursday does make a cameo appearance in the book. In this one, fictional characters live in the "real" world, although they face a lot of discrimination for not being "real" humans.

The plot line and characters are highly amusing, so I enjoyed not only "The Big Over Easy" but its sequel "The Fourth Bear" and look forward to the promised third.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Viking, 2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: xii, 383 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0143037234
0670034231 :

SUBJECTS
Nursery rhymes -- Adaptations.
Spratt, Jack (Fictitious character)
Fantasy fiction.