ISBN: 9780340896716
Those who consume their mysteries with earnest seriousness are ill-advised to tackle The Fourth Bear, which kicks off with the death of Goldilocks, a cucumber explosion and an investigation of bears doping up on porridge. It',s hard to derive the standard reading pleasures when a crime novel',s prime suspect is the Gingerbread Man. Jasper Fforde',s follow-up to The Big Over Easy continues to track the sleuthing of Jack Spratt (of ",Spratt could eat no fat", and beanstalk notoriety), a nursery crimes investigator who, like all dependable literary detectives, is at odds with his colleagues and is thoroughly mucking up his personal life. Not only is Spratt chasing down the most malevolent psychopath his town has known, but he also has been taken off the case for botching a previous investigation. It',s a conventional detective novel set-up ? which is good, because toying with convention supplies Fforde with his best material. This killer, after all, has a ",licoric...
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