Fiction: The cut and thrust world of international chiropody

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But Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary remain unconvinced, a sentiment not shared with their superiors at the Reading Police Department, who are still smarting over their failure to convict the Three Pigs of murdering Mr. Wolff. Before long Jack and Mary find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, bullion smuggling, problems with beanstalks, titans seeking asylum, and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody.........

new book from childrens' writer Jasper Fforde called The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime

Who can resist - with Chrissy just around rthe corner ?

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But Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary remain unconvinced, a sentiment not shared with their superiors at the Reading Police Department, who are still smarting over their failure to convict the Three Pigs of murdering Mr. Wolff. Before long Jack and Mary find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, bullion smuggling, problems with beanstalks, titans seeking asylum, and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody.

 

I'd highly recommend The Big Over Easy, and Jasper Fforde's other books, they are real delight. Fans of British detective novels and tv shows, and Douglas Adams fans, will especially enjoy them.

In this one there is a wonderful description of a frieze in the reception hall of Mr Spongg's (a Chiropody mogul) mansion which depicts, on a large scale, various nymphs and other classical creatures suffering from a variety of foot ailments - you have to read it to appreciate it!

But I wouldn't call him a children's author?

Helen