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The Big Over Easy

The Big Over Easy

Literary FictionMystery
Pages
400
Published
2005
Language
English

Synopsis

In an alternate version of Reading where nursery-rhyme figures are real, a weary detective named Jack Spratt leads the Nursery Crime Division. When his young protege Mary Mary is assigned to help him investigate the murder of Humpty Dumpty, the two must navigate a world populated by characters from folklore and fairy tales to solve a case that unravels deeper questions about how stories themselves are constructed.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

WhimsicalFunnyMysterious
Fish Out of WaterMentor Figure

Genres

Literary Fiction Mystery Contemporary Literature Crime Fairy Tales Fantasy Police Procedural

About the author

J
Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde is an English novelist, born in London in 1961 and now living in Wales. After working as a focus puller on films including GoldenEye and The Mask of Zorro, he published his first novel, The Eyre Affair, in 2001, after 76 publisher rejections. He is best known for the Thursday Next series, a run of literary comic fantasies set in an alternate Britain where characters can be entered inside books. He has also written the Nursery Crime novels featuring detective Jack Spratt, the dystop...

Characters

Jack SprattProtagonist
Mary MarySupporting
All characters in The Big Over Easy

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