The Big Over Easy - first UK edition
by Jasper Fforde - signed
Fforde here brings all the apparatus of the tough crime thriller to bear on
the nursery rhyme. Minor baronet Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III has been found
dead--and in pieces--beneath a wall in a less salubrious area of town. The
perpetrator would appear to be his ex-wife, but she has shot herself. Detective
Inspector Jack Spratt and his colleague Mary Mary are assigned to the case, and
soon find themselves knee-deep in money-laundering, bullion smuggling and major
problems with beanstalks . . .
Book has red boards with the title in green on the spine; signed by the author
on the title page.