Reading order
Nursery Crime — reading order
- The Big Over Easy (2005)
- The Fourth Bear (2006)
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The Big Over Easy
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Publication order
2 volumes2005–2006Completed
- Jasper Fforde’s comic crime novels, a spin-off from his Thursday Next books, about Detective Inspector Jack Spratt of the Reading Nursery Crime Division, who investigates cases involving characters from nursery rhymes.
- The Big Over Easy asks who pushed Humpty Dumpty off the wall; The Fourth Bear, the one with enough ratings, sends Spratt after a missing journalist named Goldilocks and an escaped Gingerbread Man.
- Absurd, punning and clever.
- A long-promised third book has not appeared.
- Read in order.
Every volume in order
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Frequently asked questions
What should I read after Nursery Crime?
Other series by Jasper Fforde: Shades of Grey, Thursday Next, The Last Dragonslayer Chronicles.
