See the full review on my blogPunny funny murder mystery; if I had to describe this book, those four words sum it up to a tee. Fforde is known for his funny and ingenuitive concepts, and his even funnier writing style, he combines fun children’s characters with puns-a-plenty with the seriousness of ...
Inspector Jack Spratt of the Nursery Crimes Division was in charge of all crimes happening to nursery rhymes characters - the three little pigs, Bo-Peep, Rumplestiltskin etc. In this series starter, Jack along with his partner Mary Mary, investigates the murder of Humpty Dumpty. I enjoyed the prem...
Fun, but ultimately forgettable. I wish there had been a little less punning and plot twists, and a little more character development. Great satirizing of mystery fiction, though, and the nursery rhyme thing (diluted weirdly with bits of Greek mythology, fairytales, and other fictional razzmatazz . ...
Loved it. It wasn't as over-the-top as the Thursday Next books - a bit more sedate. But it references British murder mysteries (sort of. There's Miss Maple, Inspector Dogsleash, and Inspector Moose of Oxford, as examples. Wink wink.) and Edward Lear (the runcible spoon! The Dong with the Lumino...
My copy has a major printer's error, pages 197-260 are duplicated (starting at the first 260) and ends at 324. Just the thing to ruin a mystery story, not that this one was particularly good if the half-coherant Wikipedia summary is to be trusted.I haven't found any information of this frustrating ...
Readable, and I enjoyed the cleverness of some of the gags, though others were rather trite. As far as the overall effect of the humour went I found that sometimes the rapidity of the comedy - one gag upon the other upon the other - started to build up a kind of choking effect, a little like an old ...
This book was a lot of fun- I loved all of the references and the stories woven into the mystery. Jack Spratt is a great character and so is Mary Mary (although it took me a while to warm up to her).Things are a bit different in their world but I felt that it was explained in a neat and fluid manner...
Fforde's book The Eyre Affair is one of my favorite books. It sits proudly on my shelf. The whole concept is genius. People being able to change classics and the detectives who police them and fix what they can. Thursday Next is awesome. So, when I saw that Fforde was starting a new series, I was ...
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