Jasper Fforde & the big over easy

[Heidi Tandy]

People've been talking about fforde, and after I'd deleted someone's 
question about his new book I got this:
-----Original Message-----
From: Jasper Fforde Newsletter <newsletter at jasperfforde.com>
To: heidi <heidit at netbox.com>
Subject: Jasper Fforde Newsletter July 2005
Date: 8 Jul 2005 14:38:36 -0000

You may be interested to know that 'The Big Over Easy', my new book in 
the Nursery Crime series is just about to be published. It will be 
available to UK readers from the 11th July and in the USA only fourteen 
days later, on the 25th July.

Thursday Next is taking a well earned break, and leaving the limelight 
to Detective Inspector Jack Spratt.

Jack is head of the Reading Nursery Crime Division and has long suffered 
under the shadow of the flashy Detective Friedland Chymes who dominates 
the exclusive Guild of Detectives and has an astonishing number of cases 
published in Amazing Crime Stories. Jack remains unpublished and yet to 
be invited into the Guild.

It’s Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember 
the last sunny day. Ovoid D-Class nursery celebrity Humpty Dumpty, minor 
baronet, lover of women, ex-convict, and former millionaire 
philanthropist, is found shattered to death beneath a wall. Yes, the big 
egg is down.

Jack Spratt has just suffered the spectacular failure to see the three 
pigs convicted for the murder of a certain Mr. Wolf, and now, with his 
new partner, Sergeant Mary Mary, it is up to Jack to find the key to 
Humpty’s death. Delving into Humpty’s secretive and sordid past 
reaches into the highest echelons of Reading society and, before long 
Jack and Mary find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving 
cross-border money laundering, bullion smuggling, beanstalks, Titans 
seeking political asylum and the cut and thrust world of international 
chiropody.

And on top of all that - the Jellyman is coming to town...
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(The newsletter is ok to forward per his site's rules)

Heidi

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