The Big Over Easy

Jasper Fforde is an author who I keep coming back to because I invariably love his work. In The Big Over Easy, (2005) Fforde begins his new Jack Spratt Investigates series. This is a truly funny book.

Spratt and his new partner Mary Mary investigate the death (by falling off the wall) of Mr. Humperdink Jehoshaphat Aloysius Stuyvesant van Dumpty, better known as Humpty Dumpty. They encounter eminently readable rival detectives, members of an insane asylum community, and frightening foot-care conglomerate owners. In the tiny Nursery Crimes Division, Spratt and Mary work to find the answers behind Humpty Dumpty's suspicious death.

This book has so many references to nursery rhymes and tales that every chapter made me laugh for a different reason.

I enjoyed this enough that there will be a few more Jasper Fforde book reviews in coming posts.

Labels: Fforde, fiction, literature, mystery, nursery

posted by reader kay at 7:14 PM