The Big Over Easy

Nursery Crime Adventures, Book 1

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The Big Over Easy

By: Jasper Fforde

Narrated by: Luke Thompson

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'It looks like he died from injuries sustained during a fall....' Best-selling author Jasper Fforde begins an effervescent new series.

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 Reading in Jack's lime green Austin Allegro, the clues pile up, but Jack has his own problems to deal with. And on top of everything else, the JellyMan is coming to town....

Jasper FfordeLuke ThompsonHodder & StoughtonThe Nursery Crime Adventures

Fantasy

Literature & Fiction

Mystery

Thriller & Suspense

Fiction

Magic

Witty

Suspense

Crime

Fantasy Literature & Fiction Mystery Thriller & Suspense Fiction Magic Witty Suspense Crime

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Still has annoying music but as always brilliantly written. The world is so close to our own you feel you can visit it and you know the characters already.
The narration was full of characters but the female characters sounded a weird.
All in all I really enjoyed this first in series book and will be starting the next immediately.