The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime

Enter the world of the Nursery Crime Division in this novel from Jasper Fforde, the New York Times bestselling author of the Thursday Next series and The Constant Rabbit

Jasper Fforde's bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every genre with its literary derring-do and brilliant flights of fancy. In The Big Over Easy, Fforde takes a break from classic literature and tumbles into the seedy underbelly of nursery crime. Meet Inspector Jack Spratt, family man and head of the Nursery Crime Division. He's investigating the murder of ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Dumpty, found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Yes, the big egg is down, and all those brittle pieces sitting in the morgue point to foul play.

Forde] knows a thing or two about leaping into new worlds. . . . It's hard not to see what all the enthusiasm is about. -Janet Maslin, The New York Times

A wonderfully readable riot. -The Wall Street Journal

Author: Jasper Fforde
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 08/01/2006
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.62h x 5.84w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9780143037231
ISBN10: 0143037234
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Police Procedural
- Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
- Fiction | Humorous | General

About the Author
Jasper Fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring vacantly out of the window and arranging words on a page. He lives and writes in Wales. The Eyre Affair was his first novel in the bestselling Thursday Next series. He is also the author of the Nursery Crime series.