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The Big Over Easy

Nursery Crime Adventures, Book 1

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The Big Over Easy

By: Jasper Fforde
Narrated by: Luke Thompson
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'It looks like he died from injuries sustained during a fall....' Best-selling author Jasper Fforde begins an effervescent new series.

It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery favourite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town.

Following the pathologist's careful reconstruction of Humpty's shell, Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his Sergeant, Mary Mary, are soon grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, the illegal Bearnaise sauce market, corporate politics and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody.

As Jack and Mary stumble around the streets of Reading in Jack's lime green Austin Allegro, the clues pile up, but Jack has his own problems to deal with. And on top of everything else, the JellyMan is coming to town....

©2005 Jasper Fforde (P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Fantasy Literature & Fiction Mystery Thriller & Suspense Fiction Witty Suspense

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Clever, funny...Good entertainment and very well read. Enjoyably zany plot with surprisingly believable characters, despite all the Nursery Rhyme mayhem.

Great fun!

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I love Jasper Fforde’s books, this one was no exception. I hope there are more in the series coming

Great read, loved the plotline

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I loved this book Funny, clever and extremely entertaining
Im a huge Jasper Fforde fan and this was him at his best

Absolutely Fantastic

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The story contained lots of twists and turns. Very funny story with great characters. Lots of subtle humour and unexpected one liners, delivered brilliantly by the narrator. I loved every minute of it.

Witty and clever take on familiar fairy tales

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As all Jasper Ffords stories, this is entirely entertaining, moves at a great pace and in places laugh out loud- but generally very amusing. I found the narrator easy to listen to and their selection of character voices fitting in really nicely. Happy to recommend

Clever, witty and very entertaining

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Still has annoying music but as always brilliantly written. The world is so close to our own you feel you can visit it and you know the characters already.
The narration was full of characters but the female characters sounded a weird.
All in all I really enjoyed this first in series book and will be starting the next immediately.

Impressive

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Like Many have said before it's a premise that really shouldn't work bit in typical Fforde wit you become engrossed an captivated with some brilliant turns and comic asides thrown in already downloaded the next book so let the fun continue

Loved It

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The Big Over Easy was a fun book with some clever twists and turns. Luke Thompson did a good job of reading and had some great voices for the different characters.

A fun read

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This is great. did i say great? because that is exactly the sort of word i'd use this book... which is great

great book

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A story that has everything. Simply terrific. It travels at a fine pace throughout, never dipping from the perfect blend of crime story and parody.

Ingenious & delightful

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