Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall...
It was not a simple accident, but cold-blooded murder. However, the only person who believes it was murder is DI (Detective Inspector) Jack Spratt, head of the Nursery Crime Division. It is up to Spratt, his new partner Sergeant Mary Mary, and his rag-tag NCD crew (an alien, a severe hypochondriac, an eager young constable, and a leggy, blonde European heiress/forensic accountant) to prove that there was foul-play and find Humpty’s killer. Spratt must dodge looming budget cuts and NCD closure, his former, only in it for the glory and fame, partner Friedland Chymes, who is waiting to steal the case out from under Spratt’s nose, and his wife who insists he should apply for membership in the Most Worshipful Guild of Detectives. Spratt, Mary, and the rest of the NCD find the case leading them deep into the world of Reading’s elite, delving into a few of Spratt’s more famous and noteworthy past cases and into Humpty's slightly seedy past.
Jasper Fforde weaves characters from Nursery Rhymes, Classical
Mythology, and Literature into a modern-day England setting with hilarious
success. Those who like Fforde’s Thursday
Next Series will enjoy Jack Spratt, who reads a little like a male Thursday Next. The madcap criminal investigation with its
twists and turns will keep readers guessing.
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