The Fourth Bear: Nursery Crime Adventures 2 - Softcover

Praise for THE BIG OVER EASY - : 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 'This is the first if best-selling Fforde's hilarious, absurd and utterly compelling new series of nursery crimes for adults.' - Daily Mirror 'Fforde offers a cascade of puns, plays on words, surrealism, satire and verbal virtuosity...Astonishing, he is funny for 400 pages' - The Times 'Fforde is a master entertainer, and a wordsmith of dexterous genius.' - The Scotsman 'Fforde s books are more than just an ingenious idea. Written with buoyant zest, they are tautly plotted and have emphatic heroes and heroines'. - Canberra Times, Australia

The Gingerbreadman - psychopath, sadist, genius, convicted murderer and biscuit - is loose on the streets of Reading. It isn't Jack Spratt's case. He and Mary Mary have been demoted following Jack's poor judgement involving the poisoning of Mr Bun the baker. Missing Persons looks like a boring assignment until a chance 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. How could the bears' porridge be at such disparate temperatures when they were poured at the same time Was there a fourth bear And if there was, who was he, and why did he try to disguise Goldy's death as a freak accident in the nearby SommeWorld first World War theme park