The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde
The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde
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The Big Over Easy
A Nursery Crime

Author: Jasper Fforde

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 11 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 07/21/2005

Synopsis

Jasper Fforde's bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every genre with its literary derring-do and brilliant flights of fancy. In The Big Over Easy, Fforde takes a break from classic literature and tumbles into the seedy underbelly of nursery crime. Meet Inspector Jack Spratt, family man and head of the Nursery Crime Division. He's investigating the murder of ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Dumpty, found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Yes, the big egg is down, and all those brittle pieces sitting in the morgue point to foul play.
Read Jasper Fforde's posts in the Penguin Blog

About The Author

Jasper Fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring vacantly out the window and arranging words on a page. He lives and writes in Wales. The Eyre Affair was his first novel in the bestselling Thursday Next series. He is also the author of Shades of Grey and the Nursery Crime series.Simon Prebble is a British actor and voice artist. He has recorded more than 600 books and was named one of AudioFile magazine’s Golden Voices and Best Voices of the Century. He has garnered multiple Earphones Awards and was designated Narrator of the Year by Publishers Weekly in 2005. He lives in New York with his wife.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on April 05, 2011

5 Things To Know Before Reading This Book 1. It is a murder mystery. 2. The victim is an enormous egg named Humpty Dumpty. (He fell off a wall … or was pushed or possibly shot.) 3. The detective investigating the crime is named Jack Spratt. His partner is Mary Mary. 4. Jack and Mary work for the Nursery......more

Goodreads review by Oriana on October 20, 2007

Jasper Fforde is just so much fun. His books are sorta like beach reads for book nerds. They're playful, punny, funny, silly, and smart. Also I saw him read in a small bookstore in SoHo a couple of years ago and he is hilarious. He talked about how he and his kids play games in supermarkets where t......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on February 07, 2019

This is my first experience with Jasper Fforde and I have to say I really enjoyed this book. I read this story out loud to my children. A few parts I said "kissing" instead of you know what. Overall very enjoyable, especially if you are old enough to know all the nursery rhymes. I grew up reading Mo......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on September 04, 2022

Re-read 8/25/22: I needed an audiobook and was in the mood for this one. The narration by Simon Prebble is really good, and the zaniness that is Fforde's trademark suited my mood. It did highlight the big gap in Fforde's publication history, but as the sequel to Shades of Grey has an actual listing......more

Quotes

"A wonderfully readable riot . . . [A] cleverly plotted, magically overstuffed yet amazingly digestible book . . . This summer's perfect beach read for eggheads." —The Wall Street Journal"As if the Marx brothers were let loose in the children's section of a strange bookstore." —USA Today"Pythonesque . . . Like the Harry Potter and Lemony Snicket books, this one is abundantly playful without being truly geared for children. Anyone who has ever been read a nursery rhyme . . . can appreciate Mr. Fforde's outlandish joking." —Janet Maslin, The New York Times

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