Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime, #1)

Jasper Fforde

3.94/5 (30388 ratings)

Read Now Download Now

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 . . .

Format:

Pages:: 383 pages

Publication:: 2006

Publisher:: Penguin

Edition:: Illustrated, Reprint

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0143037234

ISBN13:: 9780143037231

kindle Asin:: B000PDYVRU

The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime, #1)

Jasper Fforde

3.94/5 (30388 ratings)

Read Download

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 . . .

Format:

Pages:: 383 pages

Publication:: 2006

Publisher:: Penguin

Edition:: Illustrated, Reprint

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0143037234

ISBN13:: 9780143037231

kindle Asin:: B000PDYVRU

More Books

Saint Richard Parker

Merlin Franco

The Antipope

Robert Rankin

The Far Side Gallery 2

Gary Larson

The PreHistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit

Gary Larson

The Far Side® Gallery 4

Gary Larson

Sex, Murder and a Double Latte (Sophie Katz Murder Mystery, #1)

Kyra Davis

Not to Be Taken (Black Dagger Crime Series)

Anthony Berkeley

The Peacock Feather Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #6)

Carter Dickson

Mystery Man (Mystery Man #1)

Colin Bateman

The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

Nancy Omeara

Snow White and the Seven Samurai

Tom Holt

Reserved for the Cat (Elemental Masters, #5)

Mercedes Lackey