The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime #1) Paperback | Pages: 383 pages

Present Books During The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime #1)

Original Title:	The Big Over Easy
ISBN:	0143037234 (ISBN13: 9780143037231)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Nursery Crime #1
Characters:	Jack Spratt, Mary Mary
Setting:	United Kingdom
Literary Awards:	Lefty Award Nominee (2006)

Narration Concering Books The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime #1)

It's Easter in Reading—a bad time for eggs—and no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict, and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. All the evidence points to his ex-wife, who has conveniently shot herself.

But Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary remain unconvinced, a sentiment not shared with their superiors at the Reading Police Department, who are still smarting over their failure to convict the Three Pigs of murdering Mr. Wolff. Before long Jack and Mary find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, bullion smuggling, problems with beanstalks, titans seeking asylum, and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody.

And on top of all that, the JellyMan is coming to town . . .

Identify Of Books The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime #1)

Title	:	The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime #1)
Author	:	Jasper Fforde
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 383 pages
Published	:	July 25th 2006 by Penguin (first published July 11th 2005)
Categories	:	Humor. Fantasy. Mystery. Fiction. Comedy. Science Fiction Fantasy. Adult

Rating Of Books The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime #1)

Ratings: 3.94 From 30141 Users | 2258 Reviews

Criticism Of Books The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime #1)

This was hard for me to love at first. I knew it was trying to be funny, but I kept taking it too seriously. Previous to chapter 16 I was prepared to write this review: "Didn't like it as much as I wanted to." After my husband explained the nursery rhyme that was meant to be the heading to chapter 19, I lightened up and found myself laughing as I had hoped at the beginning. It's a bit like a Monty Python movie... or Zoolander... the first time it just seems like stupidity... but then you find

Was it an EGGcidentor cold-yoked murder? When Humpty Dumpty, local businessman and infamous lothario, is found dead beneath a wall outside his Grimms Road apartment, Detective Jack Spratt of the Reading (pronounced Redding) Nursery Crime Division (NCD) is called in to investigate. Jack is a smart, capable, no-fat eating investigator whose previous collars include the apprehensions of (i) serial wife-killer, Bluebeard, (ii) psychotic mass-murderer, The Gingerbread Man and (iii) a certain

In case you were worried: No, Jasper Fforde has not run out of weird, twisted things to do to defenseless Literature.Jack Spratt, his second wife, and their five children (two his, two hers, one theirs) are living happily in Reading, England. Well, reasonably happily. Jack, a policeman, has the dubious honor of being the head of the Nursery Crimes unit. He and his tiny unit believe in the importance of their jobs, but no one else does. And they've just experienced the embarrassing, and more



Outstanding! This may be my next book club recommendation. Being a mom of a toddler makes it even more amusing - especially when reading Mother Goose before bedtime. I normally avoid mysteries but I highly recommend this one.Despite the dry and everpresent humor, it still wasn't hard to come up with my favorite paragraph: ALIENS BORING, REPORT SHOWSAn official report confirms what most of us have already suspected: that the alien visitors who arrived unexpectedly on the planet four years ago

A cleverly written book about the death of Humpty Dumpty and the detectives Jack Sprat and Mary Mary who are on the case. Many references are made to nursery rhyme characters. This author has another series and the first book is "The Eyre Affair" that has something to do with Jane Eyre being kidnapped.

This is one of the best, funniest books I have ever read, and I'm not exaggerating! Jasper Fforde has brought fairy tales to life, and the world is so much better with them in it! I recommend this book for absolutely everyone; it's a fairy-tale, but one written for totally, smart serious people.