The Fourth Bear - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0786290013 ISBN 13 : 9780786290017

Synopsis

Jack Spratt, having been demoted for his poor judgment during the Mr. Bun poisoning, pursues leads about the disappearance of star reporter "Goldy" Hatchett, whose case is related to the Gingerbreadman serial killer investigation.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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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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)

Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0786290013
• ISBN 13: 9780786290017
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 573
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible