| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780143038924 | | Publisher: Penguin Books | | Publish Date: 7/31/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 203954981 | | Item#: RVH3XH | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 80662 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.75H x 5L x 0.75T | | Pages: 400 |
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| | | In the second adventure by the bestselling author of the Thursday Next novels, "nursery crime" characters Jack Spratt and Mary Mary take on their most dangerous case so far, as a murderous cookie (The Gingerbread Man) menaces the streets of Reading.
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In this pun-tastic romp by the author of THE EYRE AFFAIR, detective Jack Spratt of the Reading Police Department is on the case once again. The Gingerbreadman, a brilliant psychopathic killer, is on the rampage, but Jack has been demoted to missing persons detail after a few unfortunate incidents from last time, so he's not assigned to go after the armed and dangerous cookie. An almost-as-interesting job comes his way, however, when reporter Henrietta 'Goldilocks' Hatchett goes missing. Spratt's search will take him to the edge of the forest where The Three Bears reside--or is it Four? Conspiracies, rogue literary figures, and fun collide once again in the second Nursery Crimes mystery.
| Praise| "[T]his sequel offers literary allusions, confusions and gentle satire...An alien policeman named Ashley, talking bears, a devoted group of cucumber-growing enthusiasts and an immensely powerful company, Quang Tech, add spice. All are grist for Fforde, whose word play runs the gamut from puns to shaggy dog stories." June 26, 2006 |
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