This is, quite simply, one of the funniest novels I've ever read. Spratt's boss gives him until the budgetary committee meeting to solve the case, so it's a race against time and the laughs are nonstop. In a world where police departments get much of their funding from royalties earned publishing the gripping tales of their cases in Amazing Crimes magazine, Friedland Chymes is king, and he wants the Humpty case. Shortly after being assigned Mary Mary as his new partner, Spratt and his team are faced with solving the suspicious death of one Humperdink "Humpty" Dumpty. "Detective Jack Spratt heads the somewhat failing Nursery Crimes Division of the Reading Police Department. Read Jasper Fforde's posts in the Penguin Blog Yes, the big egg is down, and all those brittle pieces sitting in the morgue point to foul play. 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. Meet Inspector Jack Spratt, family man and head of the Nursery Crime Division. In The Big Over Easy, Fforde takes a break from classic literature and tumbles into the seedy underbelly of nursery crime. Jasper Fforde's bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every genre with its literary derring-do and brilliant flights of fancy.
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