Jasper Fforde takes a break from his phenomenally successful Thursday Next novels to bring us his take on the classic crime genre - with typical Ffordian originality, the first in these "Nursery Crime" novels introduces Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his official sidekick DS Mary Mary.

"Book one is a police procedural - The Big Over Easy - and sets out to answer the most mystifying question in criminal history: Who killed Humpty Dumpty?"

(Source: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd)