When D-class Nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, is found shattered to death, all the evidence points to his ex-wife, who has conveniently shot herself. - The Wall Street Journal. -Janet Maslin, The New York Times A wonderfully readable riot.
It\'s hard not to see what all the enthusiasm is about. . . .
Forde] knows a thing or two about leaping into new worlds.
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.
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.
But Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary remain unconvinced.
When D-class Nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, is found shattered to death, all the evidence points to his ex-wife, who has conveniently shot herself
