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The Gingerbreadman - psychopath, sadist, convicted murderer and cake/biscuit - is loose on the streets of Reading.
It isn't Jack Spratt's case. Despite the success of the Humpty Dumpty investigation, the well publicised failure to prevent Red Riding-Hood and her Gran being eaten once again plunges the Nursery Crime Division into controversy. Enforced non-involvement with the Gingerbreadman hunt looks to be frustrating until a chance encounter at the oddly familiar Deja-Vu Club leads them onto the hunt for missing journalist Henrietta 'Goldy' Hatchett, star reporter for The Daily Toad.
The last witnesses to see her alive were The Three Bears, comfortably living out a life of rural solitude in Andersen's wood. But all is not what it seems. Are the unexplained explosions around the globe somehow related to missing nuclear scientist Angus McGuffin? Is cucumber-growing really that dangerous? Why are National Security involved? But most important of all: How could the bears' porridge be at such disparate temperatures when they were poured at the same time?
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'What makes Fforde a star is not his ebullient cleverness, but the elusive sympathy factor. However ridiculous his themes seem, his characters have a compelling immediacy.' (Independent)
'It would be hard not to be won over by Fforde's undeniable energy and the sheer, unrelenting number of gags' (Daily Mail)
'The Fourth Bear is both a shrewd satire on modern times... and an immaculately plotted police procedural... What makes Fforde a star is not his ebullient cleverness, but the elusive sympathy factor. However ridiculous his themes seem, his characters have a compelling immediacy.' (Christina Hardyment, Independent)
Praise for Jasper Fforde (:)
'Fforde is a master entertainer, and a wordsmith of dexterous genius.' (Scotsman)
This year's grown-up J K Rowling (The Sunday Times)
Consistently clever (Publishers Weekly)
I love it. THE BIG OVER EASY is great not just because it's very funny...but also because it works properly as a whodunit...Comic genius. (Observer)
A riot of puns, in-jokes and literary allusions that Fforde carries off with aplomb (Daily Mail)
'Consistently clever' (Publishers Weekly)
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'It would be hard not to be won over by Fforde's undeniable energy and the sheer, unrelenting number of gags' (Daily Mail)
'The Fourth Bear is both a shrewd satire on modern times... and an immaculately plotted police procedural... What makes Fforde a star is not his ebullient cleverness, but the elusive sympathy factor. However ridiculous his themes seem, his characters have a compelling immediacy.' (Christina Hardyment, Independent)
Praise for Jasper Fforde (:)
'Fforde is a master entertainer, and a wordsmith of dexterous genius.' (Scotsman)
This year's grown-up J K Rowling (The Sunday Times)
Consistently clever (Publishers Weekly)
I love it. THE BIG OVER EASY is great not just because it's very funny...but also because it works properly as a whodunit...Comic genius. (Observer)
A riot of puns, in-jokes and literary allusions that Fforde carries off with aplomb (Daily Mail)
'Consistently clever' (Publishers Weekly)
DI Jack Spratt and DS Mary Mary return in the second book of the phenomenally successful Nursery Crimes adventures.
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- PublisherHodder & Stoughton
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0340835710
- ISBN 13 9780340835715
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages400
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