Nursery Crime Novel The Big Over Easy, Book 1, (Paperback)

from MerryMary

My first experience with Jasper Fforde. What an introduction! I really enjoyed the mystery, the characters of Sprat and Mary(Mary), and the surreal landscape of the story environment. I love the juxtaposition of childhood figures and gritty-city crime. I loved the word play and the sly references...

from Jenners26

5 Things To Know Before Reading This Book 1. It is a murder mystery. 2. The victim is an enormous egg named Humpty Dumpty. (He fell off a wall ... or was pushed or possibly shot.) 3. The detective investigating the crime is named Jack Spratt. His partner is Mary Mary. 4. Jack and Mary work for th...

from maughta

Seperate but related to the Thursday Next series, here we have a hard-boiled mystery complete with detective Jack Spratt and sidekick Mary Mary. Who killed Humpty Dumpty? And will the Nursery Crimes division of Reading be scrambled? Or will the investigation be poached? Someone should fry over th...

from LizzySiddal

Reputedly not as good as the Thursday Next novels? I loved this. It had me in stitches. It's also very, very clever. Pay attention to the introductory snippets at the beginning of each chapter, which contain magnificent deconstructions of crime writing techniques ... and more than a few clues!

from reading_fox

Detective Inspector Jack Spratt heads the Nursery Crime Division (NCD) of Reading police dept. That probably tells you all you need to know about this book. Its a massively funy spoof on the whole police procedural genre. Disappointed after losing his last case (prosecuting the three little pigs ...