num_pages: 398
description: It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Dumpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict, and former millionaire philanthropist is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Evidence points to his ex-wife who has met with an accident down at the Yummy-Time biscuit factory.But Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary remain unconvinced, a sentiment not shared by their superiors at the Reading Police Department, who are still smarting over their failure to convict the Three Pigs of murdering Mr Wolff. Before long Jack and Mary find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, bullion smuggling, problems with beanstalks, titans seeking asylum, and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody. And on top of everything else, the Jellyman is coming to town...
language: English
title: The Big Over Easy
titlecomplete: The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime, #1)
characters: Jack Spratt, Mary Mary
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Comedy, Humor, Fairy Tales, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Fantasy, Crime
ratings_count: 33250
places: United Kingdom
series: Nursery Crime
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Lefty Award
publisher: Hodder & Stoughton