The Big Over Easy

The Big Over Easy, ISBN 9780340835678, is a book written by Jasper Fforde in 2005. It features Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant, Sergeant Mary Mary.

Related Topics:
Jasper Fforde - 2005

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It is set in the same alternate reality as his other books: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots and Something Rotten.

Related Topics:
The Eyre Affair - Lost in a Good Book - The Well of Lost Plots - Something Rotten

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The Big Over Easy is what happened to the book Caversham Heights featured in The Well of Lost Plots.

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It was the first novel he wrote and failed to get published. It has been massively re-written following the success of the Thursday Next novels. A follow-up, provisionally called The Fourth Bear, has apparently already been finished.

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Following a disastrous prosecution and acquittal of the three little pigs, and facing deep budget cuts, Detective Inspector Jack Spratt, as the head of Nursery Crime Division faces the very real possibility that his department may be disbanded if he cannot show good results on his next case: Humpty Dumpty has been found dead, and Jack and his new partner Mary Mary have been asked to investigate the case.

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Nursery Rhyme/Literary References:

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• Jack Sprat
• Little Bo Peep
• Old Mother Hubbard
• Baa Baa Black Sheep
• Georgie Porgie
• Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
• Solomon Grundy
• Three Blind Mice
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• Jack the Giant Killer
• Three Little Pigs
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears
• Rumpelstiltskin
• The Emperor's New Clothes
• Rapunzel
• Humpty Dumpty
• Wee Willie Winkie
• Prometheus