A Sunday Times bestseller in hardback, THE BIG OVER EASY heralds the start of an ingenious new series from the creator of the international phenomenon Thursday Next. About the Author Jasper Fforde spent twenty years in the film business before debuting on the New York Times bestseller list with The Eyre Affair in /5(). Jasper Fforde’s whodunit, The Big Over Easy, is a surreal hybrid of mystery fiction and Mother Goose. Detective Jack Spratt heads the police department’s Nursery Crimes Division in modern-day Reading, England, where people, nursery rhyme characters, aliens, and Greek deities co-exist. Steadfast and honorable, Jack takes his job seriously, but no one else does, and his division gets more derision . From the publisher description: 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.
THE BIG OVER EASY. Jasper Fforde is the author of the bestselling Thursday Next series: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, and Something Rotten. The Big Over Easy is the first book in the Nursery Crime series. Fforde lives and works in Wales. For more information about both series, visit www.doorway.ru Buy The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £ Free download or read online The Big Over Easy pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in July 11th , and was written by Jasper Fforde. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this humor, fantasy story are Jack Spratt, Mary Mary.
The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime #1) by Jasper Fforde was so much fun. I loved the tone and world of this story. It's very much Who Framed Roger Rabbit meets The Eyre Affair, Once Upon A Time, and Humpty Dumpty Jr.: Hardboiled Detective which I really appreciated. I don't know about you, but I really needed this. 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. In The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde has created a new and bizarre universe where fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and real life collide. Fresh from the success of his bestselling Thursday Next series, Fforde has now sealed his reputation as one of the brightest literary lights around.
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