num_pages: 398
description: Dead bodies never look like this.It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and the shattered, tuxedo-clad corpse of local businessman Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III has been found lying beneath a wall in a shabby part of town. Humpty was one of life's good guys - so who would want him knocked off? And is it a coincidence that his ex-wife has just met with a sticky end down at the local biscuit factory?A hardened cop on the mean streets of the Thames Valley's most dangerous precinct, DI Jack Spratt has seen it all, and something tells him this is going to be a tough case to crack...
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: 33252
places: United Kingdom
series: Nursery Crime
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Lefty Award
publisher: Hodder Paperbacks