Book description
'It looks like he died from injuries sustained during a fall...'
Bestselling author Jasper Fforde begins an effervescent new series.
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It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can
remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery
favourite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist
is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town.
Following the pathologist's careful reconstruction of Humpty's
shell, Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his Sergeant Mary Mary are
soon grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money
laundering, the illegal Bearnaise sauce market, corporate politics and
the cut and thrust world of international Chiropody.
As Jack and Mary stumble around the streets of Reading in Jack's
Lime Green Austin Allegro, the clues pile up, but Jack has his own
problems to deal with. And on top of everything else, the JellyMan is
coming to town...
