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THE FOURTH BEAR
By: Jasper Fforde

Nursery Crime #2
Penguin
August 2007
On Sale: July 31, 2007
Featuring: Jack Spratt; Mary Mary
400 pages
ISBN: 0143038923
EAN: 9780143038924
Paperback
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Mystery

The inimitable Jasper Fforde gives readers another delightful mash-up of detective fiction and nursery rhyme, returning to those mean streets where no character is innocent. The Gingerbreadman-sadist, psychopath, cookie-is on the loose in Reading, but that's not who Detective Jack Spratt and Sergeant Mary Mary are after. Instead, they've been demoted to searching for missing journalist "Goldy" Hatchett. The last witnesses to see her alive were the reclusive Three Bears, and right away Spratt senses something furry-uh, funny-about their story, starting with the porridge. The Fourth Bear is a delirious new romp from our most irrepressible fabulist.

Nursery Crime

THE FOURTH BEAR

#2.0 • August 2007

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