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Mayhawke (97 KP) rated The Big Over Easy: An Investigation with the Nursery Crime Division in Books

Feb 7, 2018  
The Big Over Easy: An Investigation with the Nursery Crime Division
The Big Over Easy: An Investigation with the Nursery Crime Division
Jasper Fforde | 2006 | Fiction & Poetry
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9.0 (1 Ratings)
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Fford. If you don't know him you should, especially if you love Adams & Pratchett
I picked this up on the off-chance , when it was on special offer. This is how I like to try out writers that are new to me. Buy 'em cheap and then it doesn't matter if (as is so often the case) they end up in the secondhand-bookshop.

If only more of them had fulfilled their promise as this did!

I really wasn't entirely clear on what I was getting, (that happens to me sometimes - I thought 'The Mummy' was a horror film!) but I'm so very glad I got it.

What Adams did for Sci-Fi and Pratchett did for Fantasy, so now Fford s doing for the 'tec novel. This amazing imagination give us a story in which Humpty-Dumpty, noted intellectual, womaniser and law-bender,is found dead at the bottom of a wall. It looks like suicide, but is it? Enter Jack Spratt hard-working, family-man detective with the Nursery Crimes Division.

Few things, even those I love actually make me laugh out loud, but this managed it on several occasions. If you like off-the-wall, bizarre or just plain silly, buy this.Then buy the rest of his books.
  
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Ross (3284 KP) Feb 7, 2018

I much prefer the Nursery Crimes books to the Thursday Next series, for which he is better known.
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Mayhawke (97 KP) Feb 9, 2018

I agree. I waited years for the third one to come out before I gave up all hope.