The result is unusually clever but not compelling in the least. Hubbard or Tom Thomm or to hear Spratt bemoan "illegal straw-into-gold dens" in this unusual context, the novel's broad satire overshadows elements like plot, conflict and characterization. While it can be charming to encounter Mrs. Fforde crafts a police procedural out of this bizarre alternative universe that prizes, as The Eyre AffairÄoes, literacy (detectives, for example, garner recognition less for solving crimes than by writing articles about cases for the likes of Amazing Crime Stories It is a bitter winter and civil war now ravages Kurald Galain, as Urusanders Legion prepares to march upon the city of Kharkanas.The rebels only opposition lies scattered, bereft of a leader since A Want to Read Rate it: Inspector Hobbes and the Curse (Unhuman, 2) by Wilkie Martin 3.98 avg. Wolff." Working with an ambitious young detective, Mary Mary ("Quite Contrary"), Spratt later takes on the case of "fall guy" Humpty Dumpty. Jack Spratt, the dedicated but underappreciated investigator in the Reading, England, Nursery Crimes Division, is depressed because the court finds the three little pigs "not guilty of all charges relating to the first-degree murder of Mr. Fforde's whimsical fifth novel, his first not to feature literary detective Thursday Next, is consistently witty, but its conceit-putting a criminal spin on nursery rhymes-wears a bit thin. The Big Over Easy is also a bit more light-hearted and fun than the Next books, which appeals to me.
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