Nursery Crime Novel The Fourth Bear, Book 2, (Paperback)

from mlake

I love this series! Fforde is funny and clever nad keeps you guessing. Jack Spratt and Mary Mary work in the Nursery Crimes Division of the police department. They solved the case of who murdered Humpty Dumpty in The Big Over Easy and they are back with more in this mystery.

from elbakerone

Introduced in The Big Over Easy, investigators Jack Spratt and Mary Mary of Reading's Nursery Crime Division return to action in The Fourth Bear, a highly amusing sequel from author Jasper Fforde. This time, the detectives are trying to track down a crazed serial killer known as The Gingerbreadma...

from fyrefly98

Summary: Detective Jack Spratt and the rest of the Nursery Crimes division have got big problems: the psychotic Gingerbread man has escaped from prison, and is loose on a murderous spree in Reading. Or rather, they would have big problems, if they hadn't been bumped off the case by the higher-ups...

from AHS-Wolfy

My first encounter with Mr. Fforde's work didn't set my reading buds tingling but as I already had the sequel to [The Big Over Easy] I thought I'd give it another go as I do like the concept idea of poking fun at the crime/mystery genre. The Nursery Crimes series certainly does that with the NCD ...

from reading_fox

The second of the Jack Spratt serie sof Nursery Crime detective stories. Surprisingly I had though that as a paradoy of the crime genre this might start to fall a bit flat by the second book, but it doesn't. It is still incredibly funny, packed with obscure and not so obscure references and one o...