The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde
The Book Jack Spratt can solve no case...or so the bastardization of the nursery rhyme goes. Well, it would, it's a Nursery Crime and Jack Spratt is actually Detective Inspector Jack Spratt, head of the Nursery Crimes divisions. What are Nursery Crimes, well that would be any crime committed by or pertaining to Nursery Rhyme characters, fictitious characters, or other worldly beings. This is a problem that is specific to Reading, Berkshire, England. (For those of you who like me and have grown up in America, this town is pronounce like reeding not like redding. Pennsylvania would like for you to know redding it the preferred pronunciation there.) Jack gets as his junior partner Detective Constable, Mary Mary. Yes, Mary Mary of quite contrary fame, well, the latest in a long line of Mary Marys at the very least. The NCD has two problems, one is the rivalry between Jack and his former partner Friedland Chymes. And NCD's abysmal conviction rate. Chymes i...
