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The Big Over Easy
- Nursery Crime Adventures, Book 1
- Narrated by: Luke Thompson
- Length: 11 hrs
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Summary
'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....
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- MISS J A CALVO
- 05-04-19
Brilliant fun!
As others have stated you'd think it wouldn't work, but it really does, excellent twists and turns detective story with really loveable characters! Very funny.
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- Gail McGahey
- 06-11-19
Witty and clever take on familiar fairy tales
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.
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- Seana Slattery
- 09-02-21
Great fun!
Clever, funny...Good entertainment and very well read. Enjoyably zany plot with surprisingly believable characters, despite all the Nursery Rhyme mayhem.
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- Jan
- 29-06-23
Great read, loved the plotline
I love Jasper Fforde’s books, this one was no exception. I hope there are more in the series coming
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- Textilephd
- 05-03-23
Absolutely Fantastic
I loved this book Funny, clever and extremely entertaining
Im a huge Jasper Fforde fan and this was him at his best
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- G. Kilshaw
- 08-01-21
Impressive
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.
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- Tony
- 05-10-20
Loved It
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
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- Cherry Rogers
- 20-04-19
A fun read
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.
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- Sarah Ellum
- 25-09-22
Quirky, twisty and clever - so enjoyable!
Thank you once again for using your warped humour to make me laugh!
Fun escapism!
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- Roobarb
- 04-09-19
Not what you'd think
Fun book, as quirky as we've come to expect from Jasper Fforde. This was a reread actually a relisten. I had been waiting for the third in the series but it's a no show, and must be hiding in the Well of Lost Plots.
Brilliant convoluted police procedural, populated by characters who don't think they're nursery crime characters but their background sneaks up on them in one way or another.
This is a great read and a good listen, well read by Luke Thompson. I'm off to listen to book 2, The Fourth Bear.
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