The Big Over Easy
Forget about watching CSI and Law & Order etc. Grab a copy of Jasper Fforde's The Big Over Easy. Join Inspector Jack Spratt and his partner Mary Mary of the Nursery Crimes Division as they try to solve the murder of Humperdinck Jehoshapat Aloysius Stuyvestant van Dumpty, better known as Humpty Dumpty. Their investigation shows that Humpty Dumpty was a womanizer, a drinker and a stock manipulator. They have to solve the case admidst budgetary problems and interdeparmental rivalries.
For more about this book (and a sequel titled The Fourth Bear) go to the author's web site Fforde Grand Central.
Comments
I just discovered Jasper Fforde the other day because of his Thursday Next series. I've been looking for books about libraries and librarians in science fiction and fantasy for a panel I'm doing at an SF convention next month, and his name came up several times.
Posted by: Sharon | February 21, 2007 02:56 PM
Are you familiar with the play Underneath the Lintel? Quite interesting.
Posted by: webdoll | February 27, 2007 09:48 AM