The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime (Jack Spratt Investigates)
Price 10.95 - 27.10 USD
EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780143038924
Author
Jasper Fforde
Producer
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Pages
400
Year of production
2007
The inimitable Jasper Fforde gives readers another delightful mash-up of detective fiction and nursery rhyme, returning to those mean streets where no character is innocent. The Gingerbreadman—sadist, psychopath, cookie—is on the loose in Reading, but that’s not who Detective Jack Spratt and Sergeant Mary Mary are after. Instead, they’ve been demoted to searching for missing journalist “Goldy” Hatchett. The last witnesses to see her alive were the reclusive Three Bears, and right away Spratt senses something furry—uh, funny—about their story, starting with the porridge. The Fourth Bear is a delirious new romp from our most irrepressible fabulist.