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