reading recommend : nursery crimes

[thoreau]

So - I have discovered a new author, Jasper Fforde. I'm reading his novel "THE FOURTH BEAR" and he also has "THE BIG OVER EASY" - both about the murders of famous nursery rhyme characters - "Goldy Locks" - and "Humpty Dumpty." These books are like Wicked meets Monty Python. They are incredibly, over-the-top silly - (making laugh outloud on the muni while reading) - and full of lots of incredibly witty british humor - which is probably why I love them so much....

The detective in each novel is Jack Sprat (who's wife could eat no lean?). It's tough being a detective in the unglamorous world of nursery rhyme crimes, especially when your power-hungry rival hogs the limelight, your commanding officer is looking to eliminate your division, and you have a nasty reputation for killing giants. Detective Inspector Jack Spratt is investigating the violent death of Humpty Dumpty, disreputable philanthropist and business mastermind, who may have been shot by his ex-wife. As Spratt and his ambitious assistant Mary Mary delve into the crime, they uncover several suspects and a sinister plot involving money laundering, woodcutters, and podiatry. Like Fforde's "Tuesday Next" series, The Big Over Easy is set in an alternative world where fiction is real-a place where Georgy Porgy is a crime boss, the Three Little Pigs are prosecuted for killing the Wolf, and Wee Willy Winkie has been diagnosed with narcolepsy.

In "THE FOURTH BEAR" - picks up with Spratt after successfully apprehending the infamous Great Long Red-Legg'd Scissor-man, who cuts the digits off children who suck their thumbs, Spratt is inexplicably forced to take a leave of absence while a medical review board assesses his competency.

With Mary Mary working as the acting head of the Nursery Crime Division -- and Spratt as her "consultant" -- the misfit members of the NCD are faced with two very different cases: to help track down the deranged Gingerbreadman, who has just escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane, and to find Henrietta "Goldilocks" Hatchett, an investigative reporter who mysteriously disappeared while working on a story about prizewinning pickles. The last to see her alive: a family of three bears who have recently experienced strange porridge problems…

Comments

[robearal.livejournal.com]

You need to read the Thurday Next novels. Jack Spratt is introduced in one of them. I haven't read these Nursery Rhyme mysteries yet, but they're on my list.

[krypto38801.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good read. Must look into them.

Dreamed about you last night (WTF? I know!) You were with a guy, and both of you were planning on moving some sort of store you owned/worked in from one area in a building (one of those old brownstone-type buildings) into the next room, which was a corner area with surrounding widows on both sides. And Miss Kate was there! I was amazed at finally gettting to meet you face to face and thought "Wow, he really has grown that moustache and goatee out a lot!"

I guess it was brought on by seeing those half-naked pics of you with a tattoo being worked on. My brain works in an odd gear lately....

[eric-mathgeek.livejournal.com]

I read the first three Thursday Next novels. Enjoyed them, but I was annoyed by the third (which introduced Jack) because it didn't advance the big loose thread from the second. Don't know if I'll continue reading them.

[bukephalus.livejournal.com]

These sound great! I just wish you could have read an excerpt to me as a bed time story.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

Now, suddenly, both paws grabbed Jack's hips and pulled the boy's ass back. In the space of seconds, its mammoth cock was fully buried within him. Jack's butt pressed into the furry groin and its hot furry balls rubbed his. Jack's asshole burned and he cried out sharply in pain, but feeling the sheer size and weight of those furry balls against his own sent an unexpected thrill through his guts. Then the beast shoved forward, pressing Jack's knees into the ground. The beast's own huge furry inner thighs caressed the outside of Jack's legs as it went to its hands and knees over Jack and forced itself harder into his hole. Jack trembled in pain and excitement, panting from the pain with tears streaming down his cheeks. The pole sized cock inside of him was agony and yet he knew he yearned for this....

oh - I'm sorry - wrong book.......

[cuboz.livejournal.com]

I so wish I could pick up a book and immerse myself in it....

I just never seem to find the time to read.... And they sound like GREAT books - there's one called "Bretheren" that I need to read as well! You might know the author...??? *wink*

*hugs*

P.S - Do you know where I can get that book in the answer to bukephalus's comment? WOW!