Review
"* 'I love it. THE BIG OVER EASY is great not just because it's very funny...but also because it works properly as a whodunit...Comic genius.' - Observer * 'A riot of puns, in-jokes and literary allusions that Fforde carries off with aplomb' - Daily Mail * 'Consistently clever' - Publishers Weekly * 'This is the first if best-selling Fforde's hilarious, absurd and utterly compelling new series of nursery crimes for adults.' - Daily Mirror * 'Fforde offers a cascade of puns, plays on words, surrealism, satire and verbal virtuosity...Astonishing, he is funny for 400 pages' - The Times * 'Fforde is a master entertainer, and a wordsmith of dexterous genius.' - The Scotsman"
Product Description
The Gingerbreadman -- psychopath, sadist, genius, convicted murderer and biscuit -- is loose in the streets of Reading. It isn't Jack Spratt's case. He and Mary Mary have been demoted following Jack's poor judgement involving the poisoning of Mr Bun the baker. Missing Persons looks like a boring assignment until a chance leads them onto the hunt for missing journalist Henrietta 'Goldy' Hatchett, star reporter for The Daily Mole. The last witnesses to see her alive were The Three Bears, comfortably living out a life of rural solitude in Andersen's wood. But all is not what it seems. How could the bears' porridge be at such disparate temperatures when they were poured at the same time? Was there a fourth bear? And if there was, who was he, and why did he try to disguise Goldy's death as a freak accident in the nearby SommeWorld 1st World War theme park?
