![]() The puns and wordplay are groan worthy, but there’s also a brilliant strain of literary detection running through it all. Amusing, innovative, surreal and frequently childish. ![]() ![]() Jack Spratt is determined to find out, but he’s under rather a lot of pressure: if the case proves to be nothing, his department will be closed due to his poor prosecution rate (only last week three pigs got off scot-free despite boiling Mr Wolf alive in what was clearly a premeditated act) if the case is something, local super-cop DCI Friedland Chymes wants it, and he won’t take no for an answer. Was he pushed or did his dangerous habit of sitting, often drunkenly, atop tall walls (despite being an egg and therefore rather vulnerable to heights and concrete) finally do him in? This is the first installment in genre-crossing Jasper Fforde’s ‘Nursery Crimes’ series, and so DI Jack Spratt, head of the Nursery Crimes Division of Reading Police Department, is assigned to investigate Humpty’s fall and subsequent death. Although he was basically a good guy, businessman Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III had made a few enemies and was last seen, horribly drunk, boasting about his ability to summon up rather a large sum of money… What’s it about? ![]() If you’re thinking, “erm…he fell?” then you need to read this book. ![]()
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